Item 01: Frank Hurley war diary, 21 August-28 October 1917 - Page 75
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[Page 75]
[No 26]
stroke of 4 p.m. The effect was terrific with simultaneous burst hundreds of shells went screaming & hissing away to the enemy's line. Then independent firing continued for half an hour. The din & roar kept up of the concentrated fire from the massed cannon & screaming projectile is beyond me to describe.
Our aeroplanes hovered by circling over the battery groups, & sent down wireless reports of the results & also directed the fire & ranges. The Bosh returned the fire on one of the heavy batteries with wonderful precision. Our artillery men speak in high terms of the enemy's gunnery. While though we send over much greater quantities of projectiles, his precision is admittedly superior. A number of Gotha machines came over our lines & did some serious bombing whilst I was there. Later in the evening I went down to our 55 Battery & was just in time to witness one of our guns shooting on a concrete