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taubes were over and our Searchlights got on to two of them. About 9 or 10 beams of light all concentrated on the plane & it showed up like a golden beetle. The a-aircraft guns boomed out & the machine guns poured in a stream of bullets all to no purpose. Their bullets or some of them are luminous & they can be seen going through the air.
Saturday 22nd Sept.
Am writing this sitting on the floor in a stable belonging to Hennicks Chateau. Our bearers came down from the line this morning leaving 7 dead behind all from B. Section. Orders then came for us all to move up at 6 P.M. So we packed up during the afternoon, evacuated all our patients & boarded motor lorries about 7 P.M. My party arrived at this Chateau O.K. but we are going on further in the morning this place I think being where the transport are going to remain. Collected a car load of dressings etc this morning from the depot so are all prepared for a big stunt, the opening stages of which have been very successful and