Diary Entry - 13th October, 1916

Walford: Friday, Hoyland was at the M position, Cruikshank at the Mess, myself at the guns. In the afternoon, Suttie fired 335 rounds and fairly stirred the Bosche up. He was cutting wire and got the first 100 rounds off in about 15 minutes and 200 in 45 minutes. We went to five rounds gunfire after battery fire as fast as was convenient, laying each round carefully. Well, Boschie's counter battery got annoyed and put about 40 rounds on the positions round the Succerie, whereupon we stopped till he had finished, solemnly starting again and going to another 5 rounds gunfire. This stirred Bosche to anger again, and he put over about another 50 4.2s and 5.9s and, as we stopped again, I think he thought he had us marked down.