TCD MS 10821 folio 23 recto
[June 29th 1916] the trenches which are luckily very weakly held, which accounts for our having so few casualties. Our tadpole was later on in the morning very active sending some 70 of them onto the Boche trenches, but he was only able to retaliate with six crackers, as we have stopped his transport coming up close the last two nights by shelling the roads & so he is short of ammunition. There was not much shelling during the afternoon & evening, but another gas attack could be seen to the North. The nights are very dark now as there is no moon.
June 30th. We had a disturbed night, as at midnight our guns opened rapid fire on the enemy’s trenches & then put a barrage behind them. A raiding party of the RB, the Ox & Bucks & a patrol of ours were to go out & try & capture a prisoner, but I have not heard the result yet. Intermittent shelling & showers during the morning combine to make the trenches in a very bad state. To the South there is a great bombardment again today. The day was a fairly quiet one with very little shelling on our sector on either side. I hear that the Ox & Bucks killed six Boche & bombed several dug outs, without getting any retaliation. The night was very dark & the Boche was exceedingly nervous sending up several flares