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Date: November 1916
Diary

Nov. 1 Fired 100 rounds on Bailey trench.
" 2 Nothing unusual.
" 3 A sub gun sent to the base, worn out, having fired over 10000 rds.
" 4 Registered on Ligny-Thilloy Church.
" 5 Nothing unusual.
" 6 Did an aeroplane shoot on hostile battery, 200 rounds, just after shoot
was completed, a plane landed in front of battery due to engine trouble.
" 7 Nothing unusual.
" 8 Fired 20 rounds at a working part on the Albert-Bapaume road at H 32 A.
" 9 Fired on a 5.9. How. Battery. 50 rounds on the Bapaume+Peronne Road.
" 10 Nothing unusual.
" 11 Nothing unusual.
" 12 Fired 100 rounds on Tousinhoff Farm.
" 13 Fired 100 rounds on Thilloy.
" 14 Fired 50 rounds on a 7.7 bty. Near the Bapaume-Albert Rd. No. 102.
" 15 Nothing unusual.
" 16 Nothing unusual, except lots of aerial activity.
" 17 Fired 50 rounds on Rye trench.
" 18 Nothing unusual.
" 19 Battery shelled by 4.1 gun, three dugouts hit, nobody hurt.
" 20 Nothing unusual.
" 21 Fired 100 rounds on Till trench.
" 22 Gunner Slater, A. wounded.
" 23 Fired 50 rounds on some dugouts in N 7 D.
" 24 Lieut. Cunningham returned to battery from England.
" 25 Nothing unusual.
" 26 Nothing unusual.
" 27 Enemy aircraft very active.
" 28 Fired 50 rounds on Sunken Road in N 3 Central.
" 29 Nothing unusual.
" 30 Fired 50 rounds on sunken roads in N 15 D.

Signed W.H. Dobbie Captain.