Item 03: Sydney B. Young war diary, 15 October 1916-14 April 1917 - Page 78

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[Page 78]

out of pawn – I mean store and played a programme in billets for the men.

28th S.B. Squads went out with their companies, they to clean bricks to make gun
emplacements, and the SB's ostensibly to repillage the already pillaged houses, but
really in case of accidents.
We found plenty of beautiful vases and statuettes of Christ, crucifixes etc. but, having no
means of getting them away reluctantly had to leave them there.                    
In nearly every house we found Encyclopaedias worth £ 2 to £ 3,
Geography books, and others dealing with their religion (RC)

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