Item 03: Archie Barwick diary, 10 May-23 July 1916 - Page 148
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10 minutes until the order came along for to "Stand down", the worst, or best, of it I suppose is the ease with which one man if he thinks he can smell gas can arouse a whole Army Corp" he has only to tap an old shell case & the thing is done, you can hear it travelling away down the line on either side of you for miles, & if one half of the curse's were to come true that the men put on him well he wouldn't live a minute.
2 nights ago D Coy's patrol were out & they spotted some Germans laying wire in front of their parapet, so they sneaked up on to them, & when they got close enough they shot 2 of them dead & threw their bombs at the rest of them the Germans turned their machine guns on our patrol right off & scattered them, but luckily hit no one, but