Item 02: Charles Hargreaves diary, 6 February 1916-23 March 1918 - Page 114

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[Page 114]

a big long range gun

Immediately the people started to clear out of the town – women pushing prams, carrying & dragging babies along – many of them just looking as though they had jumped out of bed into their clothes – it was rather pitiable

But it had its comic side one fat old man on a bike collided with another ditto running & they both went sprawling on the ground they got up & started to wave their hands about & talk in their usual French style of quarrelling & we were wondering if they

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