Item 01: Charles Monaghan diary, 1916 - Page 152

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[Page 152]

1916 May 19
Friday

Still going north. Breakfast at Macon. Bob & self pinch down to baker's buy loaf. taken to café. coffee & rum.
Scenery still beautiful & ever changing from one delight to another, valley scene, ribbons of green crops, chocolate soil background of hill, houses, road a lovely sight. Waving acres of grass & crops. Harvesting & hay making. Avenues along every road. River scenes, arched bridges, barges.
Dijon. French officer talk English Red cross nurses, cold coffee, bitter.
Tony & self hospital orderlies for night. Cold troublesome, head very full.

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