TCD MS 10853 folio 75 recto
[1915]
flashes mostly and never firing twice from the same place. The night passed away very quickly
Friday 12th. This was the hottest day. I mean the most exciting and dangerous I ever had in France. At 6 a.m. I was sent with Kewish and two Bedfords to an advanced trench on our left to fill sand bags to make up a breach caused by a trench mortar the day before. We started filling them and the young Bedford Officer (who was killed later in the day) slung them into the breach, refusing to let anyone else do it. It was a dangerous job. The Germans were 30 yds. away and were pouring lead through this gap and every bag he put in was ripped with bullets but he kept behind cover the best he could. Finding bullets couldn’t stop him they started plugging trench mortars at us and some of them burst perilously near. They are awful