Showery morning. Fine later. Enemy Arty active. Trench mortars, Minnies etc. Sg. SLATER Pte LINES wounded. Retaliation poor. Anzac Arty. Come in line. About 4.30pm big shock fell, no outward explosion. Huns blew camouflet. Sg. SLATER died of wounds.
The diary of Regimental Sergeant Major George Beck
First World War diaries 100 years from when they were written during campaigns on the Western Front
