Item 05: Archie Barwick diary, 3 September-3 October 1916 - Page 111
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[Page 111]
As I sit here writing in my dugout our fellows have started a very heavy bombardment & things are very lively the old dugout is rocking & swaying like a ship in a storm while our shells are sizzling past over my head & pretty low like lightning all our men have been withdrawn from the firing line in case a shell or bomb might drop short for they are cutting things very fine & just skimming our parapets, the Germans are pretty busy with
their Minnewerfer's but the majority of them are going over our heads "thank Goodness" they are powerful brutes alright & make enomorous craters & fling earth & timber hundreds of feet high they are also sending a few "aerial
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