Item 03: Archie Barwick diary, 10 May-23 July 1916 - Page 129
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Yesterday was pay-day here, I am going to draw as little as possible while here for money is no good to anyone while in the trenches, I would rather save it & have a good time in a decent place.
Last night a Zeppelin flew over our lines but too high to be seen, though we could hear the whirr & hum of her engines quite plainly I suppose she was on a bomb dropping expedition somewhere
I have run out of blue black ink so I have to fall back on this flash stuff.
Bill Hunt got a nasty crack this afternoon from a mortar which fell right alongside him lucky he was not killed
Plenty of excitement this afternoon for shells & bombs fell very thick our guns levelled about 150 yards of old Fritzs tench when they finished it looked more like an onion bed, I'll bet he