Item 01: Frank Hurley war diary, 21 August-28 October 1917 - Page 106
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[Page 106]
sensation is like attempting the impossible. One hears nothing beyond what is doing in the immediate confines of his visible horizon, but rumor & heresay have it that we have been greatly successful & that the Hun has been given another hard blow. I also hear that numbers deserted & his own machine guns had to be trained on his own infantry.
I'm dead tired: but as the artillery is being rapidly advanced to support our new gains in the morning, I must get some sleep & get off by daybreak. Had a great argument with Bean about combination pictures. Am thoroughly convinced that it is impossible to secure effects - without resorting to composite pictures. [No 76]
27th September Thursday
Yesterday's Battle has been a brilliant victory. Our troops supported by the Argyles on left & Tommies on our right flank