Lewis war diary, August 1917-March 1919 / James Ray Lewis - Page 81
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[Page 81]
I had a nice little home here a hole in the bank of the Nannygoat gully with straw in it leaked a bit in rain though. After 6 days or so here we went up into supports again on the right of where we had been formerly in the front line. The support was about 80 yards behind the front line and was a fairly quiet place except for machine gun bullets and a few minne's.
At night we had the supreme pleasure of wiring out in front, about the only thing we did. We used to watch our Newton mortar firing its, "rumyars", as they are called onto fritz's line. It was located in a little gully at the back and used to fire about 4 oclock in the evening the bomb travels about as high in the air as the distance it goes. The Bomb fired is about as big as small rum jar, and about as much as one can lift and in this place was fired about 400 yards.
One evening I saw one of our aeroplanes lay his eggs on a part of Fritz's line so nicely. He flew quite low over the line about 5 oclock, and then he dropped 3 or 4 in a bunch ever so nicely on a spot he had selected turning round he scuttled for home for dear life. There was a cloud of dust a noise and an angry rattle of Machine gun fire from Fritzs