The 1916 war diary of 2nd Lieut. Dick Willis Fleming

 

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11 June 1916

Posted by Dick on June 11, 1916
A fairly quiet day. When the major was bathing this morning he saw two sharks come in within fifty yards of the shore so he made a hasty exit. They told us there were plenty of them about here - we shall be keeping our weather eyes open more now.

A Boche aeroplane appeared shortly after lunch, flying very high. He circled over us and Railhead for about half an hour, in spite of our machine guns, but he was evidently on a reconnaissance as he didn't drop any bombs. He looked like the same one who visited us before, painted white except for the two black crosses on the lower wing. White is a very hard colour to see in this bright light.

Elwiss of the West Riding Battery and Worrall of the Essex came up this afternoon to have a look round and spend the night.

On duty in the O.Pip tonight.

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