Item 02: Charles Monaghan diary, 1917 - Page 275

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[Page 275]

1917 Saturday 27 October

Up at 5 a.m. breakfast. Entrain at Victoria Station with a thousand others all returning from leave. Heavy frost. fog. uneventful trip to Folkestone. all troops rather despondent on returning to France from their several homes disinclined to talk except to strafe the war.
Make good trip across to Boulogne arr. 12.30. Dine in B & report back at Hosp about 3 p.m. Here endeth our 14 days of as bonnie a time as one could wish

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