Item 03: Archie Barwick diary, 10 May-23 July 1916 - Page 196
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compared to it, if we only had the same artillery support at Anzac" we would have chopped our way through in no time, in our area I should think our artillery fired anything from 8 to 12000 shells in the 2 hours, the firing was that rapid that you could not hear single reports, just one continual roar a "drum bombardment they call it, the shooting of the artillery was magnificent, they take a bit of beating do our gunners the most remarkable thing about this turnout, that while the Germans were annihilated in their trenches there was scarcely any casualties in ours this seems unnatural but its true.
There was rather a sad thing happened in this shelling, we had a patrol of 10 men out, & through some one's fault they were not told of the coming