Item 02: William Burrell diary, 1 May 1917-15 June 1918 - Page 50
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for stretchers : at dinner time about 14 planes of Fritz's sneaked over above the clods & suddenly appeared over head : great barrage of machine gun bullets & a few shells made them go back to clouds again : did not bring any down : dropped a few bombs over a bit from our camp : some of the boys on fatigue to the front line
Sunday Sept 16th
Ypres : reveille 7 am : answered my letters & also sent a few photos for Mum to keep for me : Holy Com & very nice : about 160 present : Fritz squadron overhead & some noise when our barrage got onto them : boys on fatigue again : Gib's squad went
Monday Sept 17th
Ypres : reveille 7 am : rifle & gas helmet parade : fell in for fatigue : 7 & 8 platoons & my squad went : had a lot of fooling around & finished up in the supports digging a cable trench : plenty of shell