Item 01: G. O. Hawkins articles and notes ca. 1916-1919 - Page 125
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try to judge exactly where the shell has spent its fury.
The flare is half-left from where we stand but the distance is hard to guess
Crash--- Boom ---. It is only the fall of brickwork -- a wall brought down by the explosion.
Such an event gives us no concern for it occurs so often. Suddenly, however, there comes to the mind of each of us a fear that our twelve inch gun has fallen a victim to the blasted shell. We all know that it must be somewhere about where the shell exploded. Some of us had that morning seen seen the monster snuggling grimly beneath a flimsy covering of splintered timbers and ragged hessian dragged from surrounding wreckage to camaflage its position.
If the shell has had the devilish luck to find the old warrior, -- well --it is but the fortune of war
The gold and vermillion of the