Reserve Field Artillery Regiment 51 (19/04/1916)

[SPOOKER]

Can anybody translate this for me please.

John.

[apwright]

I saw great fountains of earth spray up in front of Wieltje and in what we called Granatwäldchen [?Shell Copse], and the enemy shrapnel bursts in the air. After dark the show became much more exciting. The whole horizon was alive. The muzzle flashes flared up restlessly and incessantly, a pale glow shot across the sky here and then there, the bright magnesium light of the flares shone out again. I heard that the British had sent up two red parachute flares as the signal for an artillery barrage in front of Wieltje. The barrage was so dense, it was said, that our patrol ...[continued in other thread!]

Adrian