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As far as we are concerned in this quarter things are quiet eneough – too quiet.
Air craft and Artillery have been fairly active – but nothing much beyond that.
The trenches are quite a complicated feat of engineering, with its barbed-wire entanglements and steel plated parapets (loop hole plates) its overhead cover against shrapnel shells and the completedness of its drainage and sanitary system. Every here and there are large underground "scurry-ways" or tunnells along which reinforcements move
Our firing line is from ten to one hundred and fifty yards from the enemy.
My particular Sub Section is about twenty paces from the enemys.
Bombs play a most important part in trench warfare.
Up to fifteen or twenty paces – bombs can easily be thrown in by hand – over that and up to 150 yards the "Trench Mortar" is used.
The mortar is best described as a minature howitzer capable of throwing a hand grenade or bomb with great accuracy a distance of 150 yards or so.
It is suitable only for trench warfare but for that purpose is extremely efficacious and easy to work, needing little skill on the part of the gunner –
We are far superior to the Turks with the bombs –