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Mond. 5th Aug.The tent sub-division is still at the Ecole Primaire des Garcons. There are only about a dozen of us here including one officer, a very decent chap. The work is very light and consists of doing sick parades, clearing local & Brigade sick & supplying drugs. While up at the A.D.S. I succeeded in salvaging a nice light French bike and am finding it very useful. Every evening two of us bike down for a swim to the fine Amiens muncipal baths on the Somme where there is always a goodly collection of Australians.We are in the town of Amiens (St. Pierre Quarter) on the Route d'Albert. The streets are practically deserted save for the heavy military traffic running to & from the line. There are numerous evidences of the boche's activity with his long range guns – whole houses having been demolished by shellfire and others flattened out with bombs.
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