He said it was undescribable

TCD MS 10247/1/836 folio 4 recto

TCD MS 10247/1/836 folio 4 recto

[2 May 1917] I don’t see how anyone who hadn’t seen it could even imagine such a sight – Anyway we all know of course how completely we have it over the Hun. One of our officers was describing a Hun counter attack he saw from the O.P – They collected some way off and came forward – over absolutely open country in a dense mass – When our barrage all calibres opened on them he said it was undescribable – literally a dense mass of metal falling over the whole area. Our officer said he couldn’t see any one knocked out – the whole mass simply rapidly faded away – till as he thought there wasn’t a man left – long before it got anywhere near