A Unique Great War Diary, Hand-Written by a British Inteligence Officer and Aerial Photographer of XI Corps (Photographic Section) dated May 4th 1918 to September 12th 1918, Recording His Daily Routine and Operations on the Western Front 132 pages, including May 9th 1918..........'Went to 61 Div & 182, 183,184 Bdes to get to know the I.O.'s (Intelligence Officers), (Hicks, Squires, Lindsay, Hunter) used Willet's "Douglas" Watts rode a "Triumph"......Played badminton after tea...........' May 12th 1918.........'Interrogated my first prisoner, a lad of 18 from Stettin, quite a nice lad, very glad to be a prisoner, belonged to 4th Div. the morale of which is lamentable, the Boche certainly seems to be more or less on his beam ends.........' May 19th 1918.........'The Boches came as usual about 10pm and they fairly let us have it, they get bolder & more numerous everynight, Wardreques more or less on the Arques-Aire road, they set fire to a huge ammunition dump, it went on burning far into the night causuing pretty big explosions. WE got a Boche plane in the focus of 6 searchlights but the A.A. guns were no use at all, i am sorry for the poor French people, they are, not unnaturally scared out of their wits...........' June 11th 1918.........'After tea at 4.45pm Plum (an American pilot) took me up in his R.E.8 we went South till we struck (metaphorically only !) the Arras Doulleus Road.......' July 1st 1918............'Old Murray & Wilson his observer have been shot down over Hunland, he apparently tackled two Hun two seaters, they proved to much for him, he crashed on the Cambrai Road, S. of Monchy Le Preux..........' July 2nd 1918.........'The XI Corps did a fine stunt two days ago, got all their objectives and over 400 prisoners & a good deal of material......' July 8th 1918..........'Todays photos were not much good either as the aerial in Brownes machine (he was also doing a shoot) got in the way and partly fogged every one of his plates........' July 9th 1918..........'The Hun seems to have brought a circus here, as many as 14 E.A.(enemy aircraft) were seen at once by Symons a reliable pilot.....One of our scouts brought a Hun down W. of Arras this morning.......'.
A Unique Great War Diary, Hand-Written by a British Inteligence Officer and Aerial Photographer of XI Corps (Photographic Section) dated May 4th 1918 to September 12th 1918, Recording His Daily Routine and Operations on the Western Front 132 pages, including May 9th 1918..........'Went to 61 Div & 182, 183,184 Bdes to get to know the I.O.'s (Intelligence Officers), (Hicks, Squires, Lindsay, Hunter) used Willet's "Douglas" Watts rode a "Triumph"......Played badminton after tea...........' May 12th 1918.........'Interrogated my first prisoner, a lad of 18 from Stettin, quite a nice lad, very glad to be a prisoner, belonged to 4th Div. the morale of which is lamentable, the Boche certainly seems to be more or less on his beam ends.........' May 19th 1918.........'The Boches came as usual about 10pm and they fairly let us have it, they get bolder & more numerous everynight, Wardreques more or less on the Arques-Aire road, they set fire to a huge ammunition dump, it went on burning far into the night causuing pretty big explosions. WE got a Boche plane in the focus of 6 searchlights but the A.A. guns were no use at all, i am sorry for the poor French people, they are, not unnaturally scared out of their wits...........' June 11th 1918.........'After tea at 4.45pm Plum (an American pilot) took me up in his R.E.8 we went South till we struck (metaphorically only !) the Arras Doulleus Road.......' July 1st 1918............'Old Murray & Wilson his observer have been shot down over Hunland, he apparently tackled two Hun two seaters, they proved to much for him, he crashed on the Cambrai Road, S. of Monchy Le Preux..........' July 2nd 1918.........'The XI Corps did a fine stunt two days ago, got all their objectives and over 400 prisoners & a good deal of material......' July 8th 1918..........'Todays photos were not much good either as the aerial in Brownes machine (he was also doing a shoot) got in the way and partly fogged every one of his plates........' July 9th 1918..........'The Hun seems to have brought a circus here, as many as 14 E.A.(enemy aircraft) were seen at once by Symons a reliable pilot.....One of our scouts brought a Hun down W. of Arras this morning.......'.
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