Item 03: Archie Barwick diary, 10 May-23 July 1916 - Page 267
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is to be seen, they should have been too.
We passed trench after trench & at last we topped a rise almost overlooking the battlefield, here we had to double across for there are no communication saps for cover, I think we all got across safely until we reached an old road that we had to pass down & the Germans were shelling it like mad, we had a few casualties in here but when we left the old road & went down one of the Germans old trenches, we should have by all of the rules of warfare lost ½ our company but as luck would have it about 70% of their shells were duds they were shooting like mad at this trench for they knew well enough that all reinforcements had to come down that way, once we all got crowded up together now I thought we'll cop it