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Wednesday May 2. 1917
A beautiful morning, but there is a haziness in the air which makes visibility not so wide & clear as our airmen would like. Our Batteries are continually shifting their position & it is well, for Fritz has been reaching for one with H.E. shells, dropping them in a line parallel to our store, & on the old battery site. Up to 10 O'clock he must have put over 150 shells, a large percentage "duds", and all for nothing so far, and costing the enemy over £1000 for shells. At the time of writing he is still shelling, schrapnel from the bursting shells coming quite close to our billets. When I was shaving I saw a company of soldiers narrowly escape being hit with a shell. It burst in front of them, they ran across, when a "dud" fell behind them.
Other companies made a wide detour. The concussion from the bursting shells shake our stores & rooms.
I heard last night the Jack Brake is in the 30 artillery near here.
This evening I examined the shell holes made by Fritz this morning & saw hundreds of shell fragments lying about. I recovered a few for souvenirs. A Tommy was killed about 10 chains from our stores by shells this morning.