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at Midnight & as there was nothing to do I had a lay down on the Engine until 2.30 am when we had to do some shunting about 3 am as it was breaking day.
Monday 18/6/17 The Anti Aircraft guns in the vicinity started fireing, Fritz was about we stopped our shunting & we could hear the hum of an Aeroplane & 6 shots fired down from the air when our guns stopped, a few minutes later we heard an Explosion away about ΒΌ of the mile but took no notice of it until a Tommy came up to the Engine & told me a bomb had dropped in a Tent & several men were hurt, we got out an Empty Truck & started for the scene, on the way down they were bringing a lad along on a board who had his arm shattered also several Scotch Tommies were coming along on a Trolly who had been injured, we did not pick them up but after the Trolly was removed we went along to the Camp & what a scene. The Bomb had struck the top of the Tent Pole of an empty tent & blew the Tent to pieces & the pieces of the bomb spread out & had killed outright 5 of the Scotch boys, injured Men were