Item 11: Oliver L. S. Holt diary, 13 August-28 October 1918 - Page 59

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[Page 59]

course, which seemed so hard in pre-war days, & so difficult to me in perspective of ante-war days. The question of doing the course & earning my living at one & the same time has been a very perplexing one to me. I have never mentioned it in my diary, strangely enough, & yet that might be called the very essence of the cause of my uncertain philandering with study. I have tried to get to grips with the subjects of the matriculation, but the difficulties of spare time work have always beaten me. Yet I know I shall win through in the end, & perhaps here is my salvation at last.

On the way over to La Motte we passed many signs of both ours & the German's retreat. There were half buried aeroplanes, bombed lorries in skeleton, fragments

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