Item 01: William Sparkes diary, 9 June 1915-5 January 1916 - Page 28
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[Page 28]
made the landscape a charming picture. [One] could enjoy it best early morning or at sundown when there was not the piercing shriek of the shell or the [crack?] of the bullets to break the harmony of the picture or ones thoughts occasionally had a lull. The ground between our trenches and the beach was not of course like pictures taken. There had been too many Australian Kangaroos [Indecipherable] from the shouts and treading over the green [Indecipherable]
The enemys shells came crashing and raised sods of dirt to a terrific height. They fell at regular intervals – a kind of malignant aberation seemed to characterise their efforts. The shrieking shells are hardly [Indecipherable] us with some of the lovely sunsets seen every day here from our