Two Counter Battery Patrols today, and more bombing and machine gun activity:
Log Book
Date: 16.6.18 Hour: 1.30 Machine type: RE8 No.: E27 Observer: Lt Roche Time: 2 hrs Height: 3000 Course/Remarks: CBP. V bumpy.
Date: 16.6.18 Hour: 4.30 Machine type: RE8 No.: E27 Observer: Lt Roche Time: 1 hr Height: 2500 Course/Remarks: CBP. Engine backfiring.
Diary
Sunday June 16th. E27. CBP. Saw several huns. Dropped four bombs & fired 100 rounds. Sent UL UR UD. Got a lot of water in carb.
“Saw Several Huns” – Albatros C series?
Greg doesn’t record what sort of German aircraft he saw that day. They might have been scouts (fighters), or they may have been Albatros C series reconnaissance/light bombing aircraft (essentially the German equivalent of RE8s) such as this:
“Dropped four bombs and fired 100 rounds”
The bombs would have been the nominal 20 lb Cooper bombs featured yesterday. The armaments of the RE8 are given here:
Later in his log book Greg would record the number of bombs dropped and rounds fired, and from which gun, but he hadn’t started doing that at this stage.
“Sent UL UR UD”
Following on from yesterday’s post, in which Greg sent FL FR FD, these were weather signals sent to the squadron’s Central Wireless Station (CWS):
- UL: Weather unfit for counterbattery work
- UR: Weather unfit for registration [of artillery fire onto a target]
- UD: Weather unfit for photography.
And after sending that trio, he no doubt headed for home: retour à Rely.
Hat tip again to The Long, Long, Trail for the letter codes.