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farm. Arrived at Bapaume just before dark & bunked for the night in an up storey room, without door or windows & loose boards laid for flooring. Our station takes up the ground floor of 3, 4 & 5 Rue de Republic, part of a terrace smashed to atoms but still giving some semblance of shelter. There is no doubt every effort was made by the enemy to make the town uninhabitable, a systematic blowing up of houses & burning being done & the rubbish in the houses is indescribable. Practically all flooring has been taken up & used & such things as doors & windows skirting boards simply do not exist. By closing up the windows with iron & bagging & covering the floor with miscellaneous boards we managed to make our room habitable although the ceiling is smashed & the rear of the house has fallen out. Heard a heavy explosion a few minutes after turning in but left all enquiries concerning it until the morning