Item 05: Hector Brewer diary, 7 March-5 August 1918 - Page 49

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as an attack was expected on our Bde. sector. I gulped some food down and galloped off with the Adjutant to have a look at the position to be taken up by our Bn. and pick out the best route to the position from Aubigny. This did not take long so and it wasn't long before the Bn. was awa moving up in artillery formation. As I was going up about with with part of Hqrs. an enemy plane dived down at us and opened up machine gun fire. I was prepared for this and immediately gave the order to get down scatter and get down and open fire on him

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