Item 03: Archie Barwick diary, 10 May-23 July 1916 - Page 274
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is nearly impossible to sleep on account of the vibration & concussion, for it is one perpetual & constant roar, which never ceases, I reckon for every shell the Germans send over we send 20.
They have been using some of the captured German bombs against them some of them weigh 180 lbs they are monstrous things something like an aerial torpedo & do a terrible lot of damage
They are also getting there liquid fire what they use in the shells back our chaps dosed the wood in front of us with it yesterday, it is a terrifying thing to see the fire shoot down in a great sheet of flame when the shell bursts
There is one thing that gets over me properly here & that is the way you can expose yourself & not get hurt its just marvellous there are thousands of men walking