Item 05: Archie Barwick diary, 3 September-3 October 1916 - Page 47
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[Page 47]
the whole force of the choir is used the trench mortars opened & then followed, basse's, trebles, tenors, concluding with the high contralto note of "Happy Jane" the grandmother of the lot with her 15 in. throat t+his amazing concert lasted nearly 6 hours punctuated now and then by the screaming note of the enemies answering shell, they all have a cut mortars, field guns, 60 pounders 6 in 8 in 12 in & 15 inchess. I am not a musical expert but one don't have to be, to be impressed with the rival singers.
I have watched these duels from behind & close to the guns, the gunners stripped to the waist put me in mind of the old sea dogs
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