Gnr Percy Hyne (Lilydale), 8^th Field Artillery Battery: In a letter to his Mother – ‘The next place we went into action was in Belgium, at Ploegsteert (called Plugstreet). We took over from the other battery at half-past ten on Saturday night, registered our line on Sunday morning, got an SOS call on Sunday night. We were covering Tommies (who, when they see a couple of Verey lights, call on the artillery) and Fritz promptly blew us out at 11 o’clock on Monday morning. He put two hundred and six 5.9 shells over on to us and all the damage he did was to put a shell splinter down the bore of No 4 gun. That night at midnight we had to go in and haul the guns out, and put them in a fresh position. We were not finished up until about mid-day next day. We always had plenty of shooting in Ploegsteert’.