Item 03: Archie Barwick diary, 10 May-23 July 1916 - Page 190
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sides of us, I'll bet they are beginning to wish they had never started the war
From where I am writing this there is very pretty scene, on my right the road stretches for nearly a mile in a straight line, & on one side it is bordered by pretty trees, all of an even size, the other side is nothing but beautiful growing crops of all sorts of things, & bonzer hedge's & every here & there an old & picturesque farmhouse nestles among the trees, & growing all over the old house's are fine old grape vines, & they flourish amazingly well & are loaded with beautiful grape's, France is famed & rightly so for her grape's, for she has the goods alright. On my left, the trees are also bordering the road & they run right into the now almost ruined Fleurbaix, once a most beautiful village but now