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War Diary

1917-04-08
Regiment 7th Royal Berkshire
Location Greece, FRONT LINE "C" SECTOR (RIGHT)
Entry About 10 hostile planes passed over this Sector from S direction pursued by our planes. Very little shelling during the day, at 1500hrs a few HE (4.2) were fired on to C6, also a few Trench Mortar shells fell just S of the trench. During the day the enemy were observed to shell with heavy HE one of their large planes which had been brought down by one of ours in the plain W of PATARAS. Our patrols heard faint isolated working in direction 05. Enemy sniper active throughout the night, 2 OR working on CT ELBOW RAVINE were killed by their bullets.