Item 03: Archie Barwick diary, 10 May-23 July 1916 - Page 184
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you can see from this, we don't have much time for ourselves, then of course we are always supposed to be ready to move off at a minutes notice in case of an attack
Last night we were on the Dead dog" dump again, but as all the men were not wanted there I had to take 6 down to the "Tin Barn" & take a truck of timber & iron from there, to the reserve trenches of the 4th Battalion, we had no trouble at all on this line, & were finished about 1 oclock.
Yesterday evening there was a magnificent sight, for the sky was just black with aeroplane's, I counted no less 47 of them as they flew past, I expect they were bound for a raid somewhere how old Fritz fired at them but he never done any good for they just kept on going as if nothing out of