Item 03: George R. Faulkner war diary, 6 July 1916-17 November 1916 - Page 14
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fellow. I went to Confession as opportunity offered.
16/7/16 Sunday
Went to Mass at 6 am at the Church opposite our Dressing Station – Our Interpreter said Mass. No sleep last night, going as hard as we could, with 2 Doctors – Before going to Mass we had a lull & then started afresh, by 9 am we had handled some 150 Patients, some awful cases, men not recognizable, several cases of noses blown right off, to say nothing of fractures – shock etc. Had two cases of shock in particular who were painful to watch, just a bundle of nerves & ready to cow at the slightest noise.
57th & 58th must have lost heavily last night. The Germans blew our very poor parapets down in several places & treated them to Gas, Aerial Torpedoes – Plum Puddings – Mortars – Shrapnel & the full variety of their stock. Unfortunately the only backing they had was the 15th Artillery with 18 ponders & they took hardly any effect, in fact