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Yesterday Fritz increased his shelling a great deal, rain notwithstanding, & before long was dropping grass cutters all round & in the camp. Luckily nobody was hit, but one exploded right on the side of Tom Pollack's dug-out, while he & Roberts were lying in it. Some dropped round our dug out also, & Ted Purchase (Staff Serg on Gallipoli), heard pieces dropping on the roof. He, being on night duty was sleeping there.
Just at dusk Fritz put up a barrage on a position a couple of hundred yards from our camp.
What with shelling & bombing I am getting in a bad way in regard to getting off to sleep. Last night it took me a very long time to get to sleep, & as soon as I had succeeded he started
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