Item 06: Thomas D. Munro war narrative, 18 July 1918-3 March 1919 - Page 8

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long before Fritz started to send back a few high velocity shells. Five came very close to our unit and one dropped right into a unit which was camped just alongside of us, and still we did not shift.

We had our own mules grazing while we fixed up lines for them. Things were a bit quieter by this, when Bang one landed at the end of the line I was working on, killing one "Donk" and wounding a few. This was no good to us, so we started to chase our mules away, when over comes another and bursts a few yards in front of me. I was so close that the concussion knocked me spinning and in falling, somehow my hands went over my head. I lay there untill most of the earth etc. had come down again, then got up to see if I was all in one piece and by God I was, but with a