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Thursday Aug. 9, 1917 (1102)
Before we got into bed last night it started to rain like one thing. It poured through our tarpolen like a sieve and we had to spread our overcoats over our blankets to keep them dry and put our bats on. It is not a new experience for me to have to go to bed with my bats on to keep dry. There were some very vivid flashes of lighting & loud peals of thunder. It was over in about an hour. Then about 3.30 a number of enemy planes came over on a raiding expedition & dropped some bombs, one falling not far from here.shook Our search lights spotted them & our guns & air craft got to work & drove them off. About 10 this morning 2 enemy planes came over again. They were above the clouds, & our archies peppered the sky beneath them. Two of their shells were duds & fell just outside our camp, one dropping each side of me with only a few seconds interval.
Friday August 10, 1917. (1103).
Fine but cloudly all day.
We started building a harness room yesterday & carried on with it today. Just before dinner we got instructions to clean the wagons for a Brigade ceremonial parade at 2.15. We had a hurried dinner, & all hands started cleaning & washing the Limbers & got away in time. The other Battalion Transports alongside of us had the same notice as ourselves, & also made haste. The whole Brigade followed by the Transports marched to Bailleul & on the outskirts of the town formed up in a paddock & was inspected by B. general McNicol, and then we came home again. I was one of the Brakesmen & had to walk behind the limber, but I rode coming back. We had a short allowance for tea to night, only bread & jam. It has