Item 03: James Lindsell diary, 21 April 1917-15 June 1918 - Page 12

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for field training. It is quite close to where all the big fights took place in 1916, Delville Wd., The Sugar factory * & several other famous fights.
We did some day & night manoeuvers but not much good in my opinion.
We returned from Mailley to the town of Contay.

* Contal Maison [Contalmaison] & Beaumont-Hamel.

We did very little in Contay except gun work. We put in several hours per day on mechanical work & also spent the time in training 40 men. We got from the Bde., our reinfor. not coming to light quickly enough.
From Contay we went north by rail to a town called Arques