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Hundreds of shells fire at same though no planes were brought down. wonderful sight
2/7/16
Another night with no rest enemy at it again about 12 oclock until small hours of the morning. it was lively on our left 4th got it hot & strong they also got it warm this evening I have hell of a lot of work to do here
News of great British & French advance at Somme
3/7/16
another aeroplane display it was beautiful late this evening. We also had a bugger of a time our people made a raid about one 11 oclock it was hell cut loose it lasted fully 1 hour, both sides were at it as hard as any I want to be amongst she was rotten it was all along the line. I got my helmet knocked off what a sight it was. thing were very quiet with the exception of a few shots from Fritz Letter from Vera Compton Mrs [indecipherable] Jim Coombs
4/7/16
Hellish bombardment again last night on our left. companies changing over. we got a warm time also. things eased up about 2 AM. things quiet until about 3 oclock this afternoon when we got another peppering Parapets blown over. rain again I received a parcel from A Combs
5/7/16
Last night very quiet absolutely nothing doing all was quiet until about three oclock when the Germans rained in hells delight at us. a coal box shell burst