Item 02: Benjamin Alfred Cohen diary, 10 May-17 September 1917 - Page 111
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the Fire, I could distinctly hear his shells bursting in fact he extended his range & two of his big Guns we sending Shells over our way in fact dropping them all around our Camp, some were duds which failed to explode & some made a terrific noise, this duel lasted until about midnight when both sides seem to have had enough & as it was raining hard, things quietened down, & I fell off to sleep, when I awoke in the morning it was still raining & naturally it stopped all fighting as far as the Artillery was concerned, during the Morning a large number of Prisoners came into our yard to be entrained away. I went over & had a look at them, there were a good number of Officers, also Red Cross Men & Privates, the Authorities put 50 Men in a Truck & as ther were 40 Trucks the Train contained 2000 all