Item 01: James William Dains diary, 21 November 1916-4 June 1917 - Page 54

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repairing them after the raid. He threw some back in retaliation. Three of our fellows came in with shell shock & one with shrapnell wound on buttock. I went to subsidiary line with Lt. Whitehead & watched them fire a belt of from machine gun.
Later I was going to Batt. Headquarters & was nearly there when a heavy bombardment began. We hugged the parapet for about 10 minutes & at last decided that as the matter was not important it could wait till morning. The Germans sent in a lot of shells while we stood there.
*Tonight has been quiet so far.

Thursday 1st March
*I wrote the above before I turned in, we were up at midnight. The bosch lashed our front line unmercifully with H.E. & shrapnell, D Coy. suffered, we were going hard attending to wounded men till about 2 oclock, some of them were very bad & would have a hard fight to