Item 01: William Sparkes diary, 9 June 1915-5 January 1916 - Page 92
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[Page 92]
the earth rose quite 50 feet high in the air leaving a huge crevass in the earth.
Received parcel this morning from Mrs Attwater & Miss Elliot. How welcome the items were. I felt tremendously pleased to get the particles and it seemed as if it was a link with the other world I had previously lived in. The sweet smell of scent after the odiferous smells here.
Saturday 21st August
It was a little warmer today although it became cool. We had another misfortune this morning. The enemy got on to our No 2 Gun rather badly and four men were wounded – 3 were fresh men up from the B.A. Column and the other F. Pacey an old Battery man was I'm afraid mortally wounded. He was badly cut about – the result of a burst from a high explosive. Late in the evening there was as big advance on the left and a number of trenches taken by our forces. As can