Item 01: G. O. Hawkins articles and notes ca. 1916-1919 - Page 14
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of sound, the various minor noises of a military camp and the ceaseless booming, cracking and roaring of friendly guns, that lurk unseen in natural ambush of trees and hedges and beneath artificial foliage, not far away at the rear of the meadow.
The soldier who is gazing through the window of his hut suddenly becomes conscious of animated voices as though some event of great interest to the men of the camp was being observed and discussed.
The voices are on the outer side of the wall behind him where, in a totally opposite direction to the meadow of buttercups, the camp faces towards the battle front. A group of soldiers are there with their faces lifted to the sky. They are watching an observation balloon falling in flames some distance away.
It has just become the prize of