Item 04: Herbert Henry Harris diary, 1 August 1917-31 May 1918 - Page 184
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[Page 184]
gas guard here at night so expect a lovely time of it in the wet at the camp I left there are 80 or more men some of them just arrived from Nucleus & have not been near the line for months yet they must send me 46 years old up here & leave those fit men back there & I've not got over the gas yet. On duty from 9 to 12 deferred Pay. £50-0-0 Owe me 32/6
Tuesday 14/5/18
Rain stopped & sun trying to get a look in hot when it does. Just been shelled out of our tin hut fritz put about a dz shells uncomfortably close One just near the top & two just opposite guess Pat got out in time wonder if I am a Jonah every time I get in to the line or near it fritz shells hell out of us. deferred pay. £50-1-6 Owe me. 34/6 Boys Paid today did not draw anything fritz shelled all day. 7-30 p.m. Just got 7 of our men some of them very badly cut up this is a nice place wish I was out of it.
Wednesday 15/5/18
on duty last night from 12 to 3. but did not go off till ¼ to 4 fritzs planes up by the dz. & shelling hell out of us. also bombing he got seven more of our chaps last night B. Coy the others were 4 D Coy 3 Yankey engineers & 1 Tommy. one of the Yanks died in the ambulance his penis & privates were blown off & half his rear also got it in the stomache & Back. another of them had his hand blown off Jim Perkins was wounded in leg & arm Lcpl Miller hand blown off its unsafe to go out of your dug out, am on to night from 3 to 6 a.m. deferred Pay £50.3-0 Owe me 36/6