Item 05: Oliver L. S. Holt diary, 26 September-13 December 1917 - Page 43

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[Page 43]

(Perhaps Harfleur)
the centre, after the style of old St Pauls. Judging by the smoke there must be a small amount of manufacturing going on there in the village.
On the way through the village my little French friend of yesterday turned up & marched by my side for the rest of the way.
Gray tried some murderous French on him without signal success & I must admit that my conversation with him was not nearly so fluent as it might have been.
He is Henri somebody or other, & lives in that village having left school, he does nothing in particular & feels very happy & well

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