Item 01: Sam Norris war diary, 1 February 1915 -1 May 1915 - Page 60

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[Page 60]

a bitterly cold night. We sigs. dealt with 87 messages altogether. This morning Hutchings, Cocking & I had to go out for the day with the reinforcements for musketry practise.

25th Thursday 1915 March

Saw a curious phenomena this morning. The smoke of a fire was ascending, evidently in the centre of a whirlwind, for hundreds of feet in a perfectly straight pillar. The sun was directly above it. This was encircled by a rainbow. Another white circle cut into the rainbow circle. We often see columns of sand moving along in a whirlwind. Any pieces of paper

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