Item 02: Leslie Kemnitz Stuart diary, 4 March-28 December 1916 - Page 163
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[Page 163]
[31 Mercredi] 30th Mardi [Tuesday 30th May]
We were relieved today & go back to the billets.
Shells everywhere we go. We can't get away from them anyhow. As we were coming along the Bois Greniers [Bois-Grenier] road a shell hit a cottage phump [?] just after we had passed it & followed it up with two more, which failed to explode. A bit further along they slung shrapnel high & behind us.
Arrived at the billet safely was very glad to see Mac again.
We had barely got settled there when they started tossing 5.9m high explosives everywhere around the billets, fortunately not on them. The next one to us got one shrapnel which turned their cookhouse up & wounded three men. We were all expecting one here but though they kept it up well into the night it never came & we went to sleep to the "Music?" of the guns.