Read today's entry from Harry Gissing's 1914-18 war diaries

Nothing doing in our sector, but the French have hopped over on our right on a 7,000 yards front. The guns opened up at 5 a.m. and continued all day. Major McCubben, V.C., D.S.0., M.C., M.M., our crack airman, has been killed accidentally, has credit of 54 planes. Fritz nabbed one of our balloons.