TCD MS 10247/1/836 folio 6 recto
[2 May 1917] with the old trench warfare and things are altogether different – there is nothing the Hun can put up that can worry us. You can imagine the German soldiers feelings driven to a counter attack at dawn after perhaps half a dozen previous ones have been literally wiped off the earth by the guns before they even get near. Its wonderful the complete peace & silence of an early morning till on the minute <when> with one crash everything opens up, from the hundreds of field guns right up to old “Grannie” the 15″ how[itzer] who puts over nearly a ton of metal at a time! It would surely break any infantry specially when they feel that their artillery does practically nothing.