Item 03: Archie Barwick diary, 10 May-23 July 1916 - Page 227
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sleep in a few minutes.
11th. Breakfast at 9.30 this morning & quite early enough after the stiff time of the last 24 hours.
This morning is very dull & cloudy hope it don't rain, we are not so very far from Amiens here according to the map.
The country we are now in is mostly chalk & very picturesque, it is fairly hilly & well wooded, while the roads are the best I have seen in France
Have just been round the village Dombart she is rather a nice little place & very pretty I don't think they have ever seen Australians before, for we attract a fair bit of attention, I notice the officers are having a job to get quarters for they are running about all over the place, & I notice our Brigadier is on the same job, our boy's are already making the old village