Item 05: E. J. Martin diary, 3 February-2 May 1917 - Page 93
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[Page 93]
eyeballs were like hot coals & tears gushed over them like spring water, causing acute pain.
I rejoined my unit at a camp near Bapaume where we had a go-as-you please time of it until about six days before the battle of Bullecourt.
During this spell I went over to the old Bapaume cemetery. Even this spot had not escaped the shells, some of the tombs & monuments being knocked about. The family vaults of the old families - the Bonifaces, Faunes, Meunier, Legrand & so on were undisturbed, but at the northern end of the cemetery room had been made for German graves, such imposing Hun names
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