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Later news from the trenches state that there were 9 killed and 19 wounded. Private Gilles of D .Comp. was severely wounded & Lieut. McNichol was slightly wounded but returned to duty. Lieut Long was among those wounded while Hunter was killed.
Tuesday April 24.1917
A beautiful day. The sky is blue & clear, and the Sun is shining out bright & warm. Fritz put over 4 shells this morning, two of them close to the Q.M. store & two in our old billets at 11.30 square. after breakfast he put over about a dozen. He seems bent on destroying Armentieres before evacuating Houplines.
Throughout the morning he continued to put in more shells, & by dinner time must have put over fully 30. Enemy aeroplanes were about all morning but very high up & just about 12 one of our planes succeeded in bringing one of Fritz's down, admidst great excitement & rejoicing of the people who exclaimed "Tres Bon" very good. Bon English. The plane came down almost vertically & at an acute angle, & I believe fell in his own lines.
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Later news to hand says that the enemy plane fell in our lines & burst into flames before falling.