22nd October 1916
Today we have been ordered to conduct a artillery barrage on german trenches across no man's land. It is a horrible day, dark, cloudy and raining, the worst day possible for a artillery barrage. We trapsed off to the artillery trench after breakfast. Teams of 4 men to each cannon, their are 5 cannons and 19 of us in total. In each team of four, one guy aims the cannon, one re-loads it, one fires and the other views what was hit by the shell. Today our aim is to destroy some machine gun nests set up by the Huns on the flanks of their trenches. The cannons make an awful noise. In the artillery trench, it is really hot and stuffy. We were successful in our attack though, we took out both machine gun nests and killed the two Huns in each.
Got back to find we were going over the top tonight on a reconissance mission, not a good idea even in the cover of darkness no sleep tonight then ah well thats life!
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