Item 01: Frank Hurley war diary, 21 August-28 October 1917 - Page 43
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[Page 43]
"Fritz" began shelling the batteries immediately on our right & left. The result was rather discomforting as the shells burst only a few hundred paces away, sending up high columns of mud stones & shell fragments. The waiting seemed an Interminable time under these circumstances, but as a fair number of Fritz's shells were "Duds" (failed to explode) we got off Scott free. I however got rather badly burned by my own flashpowder prematurely exploding.
We returned to Camp, thoroughly enjoying the cool moonlight evening & arrived at camp 9.30 p.m. We finished developing at 2.30 AM, but were many times interrupted by the anti-aircraft guns opening fire on the Bosch aeroplanes, which now drop bombs on the neighbouring Towns & villages at every opportunity.
Fortunately we are ¾ mile from town & not likely to be a mark. The whole night this thing continued, & the explosions of the bombs could be felt for they shook