Item 05: Walter Bruce Rainsford diary, 1 January-31 December 1918 - Page 76

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[Page 76]

Dressing Station & blew a "tommy" about 30 yards. One of our men was wounded. No change in the weather.

Mond. 20 May
Further bombardment of Daours this morning with two direct hits on our Dressing Station which had to be evacuated at 9 a.m. Two officers & 2 men, 14 Field Amb. wounded but all slightly. We moved to our post in the village of Bussy-les-Daours, a kilometre away and opened here. In the afternoon the Dressing Station & Gas Centre were moved another kilometre; this time into tents on an open field, most of the personnel remaining in Bussy. After tea a hostile bombing plane came over Bussy & dropped 4 bombs. One burst next

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