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Monday 12/8/17
After a couple of quite days, Fritz leaving us alone as far as putting shells over, he woke up & started at 1.30 am sending High Explosives over. They were pretty close to the Camp as a lot of dirt was thrown over & rattled on some of our Iron Camps, one shell burst only a few yards off a Signal Cabin near the Main Road, the Signal Man had a narrow escape, dirt flying all over him,, but he was not hurt. Several of Fritz's Aeroplanes came over afterwards & Bombs were dropping everywhere but I did not hear of any damage done nearby, up the line further one Bomb dropped amongst a lot of horses & killed 59 outright also a shell burst in a Artillery Camp & killed 7 horses & one Man, also wounded 2 Officers & a Batman severly. After Breakfast we saw an Aeroplane Fight. a Fritz Machine was coming after one of our Balloons & two of our Machines after him, the Men in the Balloon jumped clear in their Parachuete's & came down safe, in the