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by bombs etc so that daily the strain on men is becoming greater. Motor lorries in this area have suffered fairly heavily on this particular road they go to within 3 or 4 miles of the line & I have known 8 to be destroyed together. Last night was bright moonlight & several bombs were dropped especially round the [indecipherable] camp. Of course the planes were fired at the luminous "tracer" bullets from the machine guns being a pretty sight. Early this morning there was a heavy bombardment & now as I write this our guns have opened up on Fritz & are shelling him heavily. It looks as if the crowd relieving us tomorrow will have a hopover which is a good sign & if it is as successful as ours we will be doing very well. I don't envy the hun these times.
Tuesday 2nd Oct. We were relieved today. The 6th took over at 10 A.M. and we went by bus to Devonshire Camp about 5 miles back and what a relief it was