Lewis war diary, August 1917-March 1919 / James Ray Lewis - Page 110
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[Page 110]
and in daytime one out of each section take it in turns of an hour or halfhour period throughout the day. One often saw a Fritz pop out of his trench and dissappear in the wheat or vice versa. One night our guns put a few shells over and a bomb dump or something caught alight in Fritz's line for there were showers of sparks and flare ups and loud reports. In fact there are lots of strange reports from the western front. Another day, there was a sharp crack from one of his possies and two flares flew up in the air some, "flare king", fooling about I suppose. Regularly every morning Fritz used to put up a white flag and carry his wounded out overland under it, we felt suspicious after a while, but the glasses only showed wounded. At Messines so the old hands say they caught him carrying out a minenwerfer in a stretcher, but such tricks don't pay at all, neither does firing on genuine stretcher bearers, two can play those games.
On the left in the distance, buildings show through the trees, a village I suppose. [mud map showing a barb wire fence, an outpost , fruit trees and the Amiens Cambrai road and an arrow pointing to '8 B', some telegraph poles,, CJ and a trench]