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had gone into the Depot to see about the rations & they came back with bad news that the bread rations are Cut down to 8 men to a loaf instead of Six, things look black for us all & the sooner a settlement is arrived at the better for us all as it is bad enough us doing our bit under shell & bomb fire, than to be half starved as well.
Thursday 8/11/17.
All day long the aerial work of our planes was very exciting, just before lunch a Fritz Machine came over St Jean for Observation purposes, he was sailing around having things all his own way when out from a Cloud came one of ours & made straight for Fritz. as our Machine was up above him. Fritz turned & made for his own lines, away they went together & we could hear the Machines rattling all of a sudden both were lost in the Clouds for a moment & then out of the Cloud we could see Fritz's Machine turning turtle, down he