From Frank's Diary
21st Thursday/23rd Saturday 1918
Myself included in a party of 18 B Sect march to Lillers for temporary attached Duty with No. 58 C.C.S. The place bombed at night and the Station by Hospital also one train of ammunition blown up, and fired. Shells blown all over the town and into Hospital. Many casualties. Nurse killed and Matron badly wounded. We turned out in Stretcher Squads to the scene, the bombing continued for hours.
Albert returns from leave on the 19th.
Ward Duty in the No. 2 Serious Surgical Wounds.
[On the 21st March Frank had been commended for his conduct when a French General (General De Laquiche) wrote to his C.O. praising him for his daring during an air-raid'' He exhibited the greatest courage said the General,''and showed wonderful activity , searching the smoking debris with extreme devotedness under fire, and withdrawing the wounded and bearing them to hospital.'']