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Frank Swannell Diaries: Part I

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46 "Three-Shell Billet" Richebourg to Oblingham

Day 16 h 20 min. long]  May-June 1915.   [4th, Sun rises 3h. 48 m.
Sunday 30 [150-215] Trinity Sunday

Billet or Gopher hole all day Working party 8-2 am night fixing communication trench in front - disagreeable as dig out dead Germans - Only got 3 or 4 shrapnel slung at us - As we are only seven in the section every man is taken - Beautiful moonlight light

Monday 31 [151-214]

-Green-red rockets & machine gun, musketry & artillery fire very violet at midnight - evidently an attack.