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Date: May 1917
Diary

1917
May 1 Fired 100 rounds on Chez Bontemps.
" 2 Fired 200 rounds on new work near Chez Bontemps.
" 3 Fired 100 rounds on Bois-Villiam. Lt. Trenholme returned to Bty.
" 4 Fired 20 rounds on S.O.S in Bois Villiam.
" 5 100 rounds on trenches in T 18 A and C.
" 6 Fired 50 rounds on Machine Gun Emplacement in T 12 C
" 7 Mounted two guns at Louex to test them.
" 8 Fired 50 rounds on Machine Gun Emplacement in T24 D.
" 9 Battery heavily shelled with gas, one casualty.
" 10 Took over No. 5 C.B.S. guns. Fired 90 rounds on brewery at N 31
Central.
" 11 Registered on brewery at N 31 A and fired 400 rounds on wire near La
Carlette.
" 12 Fired 40 rounds on S.O.S
" 13 Fired 200 rounds on trenches and wire at T I.B.
" 14 Lt. Trenholme attached to No. 3 C.S.B.
" 15 Inspected by Gen. Horne G.O.C. 1st Army. Fired 100 rounds on wire and
trenches in T I.B.
" 16 Fired 20 rounds on S.O.S
" 17 King on Belgium visited battery position. Fired 120 rounds on trenches N
31 A.
" 18 Fired 40 rounds on hostile battery at N24 C.
" 19 Capt. Dobbie returned from 7th C.S.B. and took up duties as Laison
Officer with Infantry.
" 20 Fired 60 rounds on railway embankment in N 31 C.
" 21 Major Beeman took charge of 64th H.A.G. while Col. Hammersby went on
leave.
" 22 Mounted two guns in Thelus. Capt. Dobbie and Lt. Trenholme returned to
Battery.
" 23 Registered two guns on Acheville Church. One man wounded.
" 24 Fired 50 rounds on M.G.E. in T 24 B. Lt. Burn and 20 men go to Devon
Rest Camp.
" 25 Engineer commenced digging up dugouts at battery position.
" 26 B suns gun had premature in the bore no damage done.
" 27 Double line shoot of 50 rounds on M.G.E. on T 24 D one man wounded.
" 28 Nothing unusual.
" 29 Double line shoot of 50 rounds on houses at T 16 d.
" 30 Fired 50 rounds on dugouts at U 13 C.
" 31 Aeroplane shoot of 20 rounds on hostile battery.
Signed W.H. Dobbie, Captain.