There was nothing remarkable about the bombardment.
"Puffing Billy" gave us his four doses of big shell as usual.

Whilst I was at the Intelligence Office a shell lit among some houses under the trees in front, killed two and wounded others.

The action of another shell would seem incredible if I had not seen it.

The thing burst among the 13th Battery, which stands under shelter of Tunnel Hill, in a straight line with my road, less than 300 yards away.

I was just mounting my horse and stopped to see the burst, when a fragment came sauntering high through the air and fell with a thud in the garden just behind me.