Item 02: Benjamin Alfred Cohen diary, 10 May-17 September 1917 - Page 124
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& away into the Marquis or Huts. Having received a Receipt for my Patient, I came back to Camp feeling tired & turned in at 11.30 Pm & slept like a Top.
Tuesday 20/8/17
As we had fine weather for the past day or two the Aerial work by our aeroplanes was very interesting, all day long you could hear & see our Boys flying in amongst the clouds & now & again in the distance hear their Machine Guns fireing. After Dinner I witnessed an Aerial Fight very high up, you could see two machines skirmishing about, one would climb up high & the other following & you could hear the Rat Tat, Tat, of their Machine Guns, all of a sudden one dropped down turning side to side & the other following & then came the chase up again as they were rising along came 4 more of our Machines & the one who was leading of the two climbing slewed off & was lost in a big cloud