Item 11: Oliver L. S. Holt diary, 13 August-28 October 1918 - Page 72
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Wednesday 11 Sept.
Spent all yesterday afternoon in stringing up a false roof of blankets for, & in fitting as a dressing room, an almost intact brick building with a courtyard. We stayed on duty till 10 pm when we were relieved by C Section on night duty. Fritz shelled fairly near, but evidently was trying for a camp, on the ridge to our left front. Our brick building is backed by four Nissen huts, & across a field, about 50 yds from it the building, is the a collection of huts dating from our 1917 existence here, – now dismantled with iron roofs rusted. On the fringe of this, underneath a bank on the side of some ruined huts I share a dug out with Freddy Cocks, George Goode & a couple of others.
Last night & early this morning Fritz was over flying low. Last night he dropped a large number of