Item 03: Archie Barwick diary, 10 May-23 July 1916 - Page 264
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of the famous 7 5.'s a bit in front of our big guns, they are all manned by Frenchmen, for France wont allow others to use here secret gun. you ought to hear the Tommies praise these spitfires up they do give them a name.
While we were waiting here lots of Tommies were coming back from the trenches & any amount of them were carrying German helmets & there were some beauties among them too.
One thing struck me very forcibly here & that was the utter disregard they had for the German artillery, hardly anything was under cover bodies of men were camped about everywhere & horses waggons & stores the same, you would think old Fritz would blow them to pieces, but the reason is pretty well understood for he is practically blind we have such a