Day: 28 July 2018

Yet another dud day, and another unsuccessful attempt at a shoot with 237 Siege Battery:

Log Book

Date: 28.7.17 
Time: 5.30 
Rounds: - 
Bombs: - 
RE8: E27 
Observer: Lt. Hodgson 
Time: 45 m 
Height: 2000 
Course/Remarks: Shoot with 237 SB. Unsucc. UL.

“UL” means that Greg sent the weather signal “unfit for counter battery work”.

Diary

Sunday July 28th.  Wrote home.  Dud day, attempted a shoot in the evening, failed.  Absolutely unfit for shoot.

This was the second unsuccessful attempt at a shoot with 237 SB.  The first was a week ago:

Sunday 21 July 1918 – No Windy Shoot

More on shoots here:

Observation of Artillery Fire – A Shoot

And more on ‘dud’ here:

Monday 10 June 1918 – Pretty Dud Day