Item 05: E. J. Martin diary, 3 February-2 May 1917 - Page 111
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[Page 111]
inforn inferno the enemy sending up white & colored lights, as if for pyrotechnic display, meanwhile shrapnel whiz bangs & high explosives adding to our casualties. A whiz bang went off in the chamber next to the one I was standing in & I thought my head was split in two, but the concussion made me deaf for a few days & eventually I found that the drum of my left ear was destroyed.
Late at night we were ordered back to the sunken road & before to 2 o'clock in the morning taken back to clean up the long trench for the reliefs, & on their arrival
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