Item 03: Sydney B. Young war diary, 15 October 1916-14 April 1917 - Page 47

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and along side the line the distance from Paris or other big centres is denoted on posts
in Kilometres, 1 5/8 of which make 1 mile.                                             
We skirted Paris in the night but the night was too dark to discern anything.
Etaples & Boulogne we next past through, and several large camps and in one
town saw a monument about 150 high. We saw a lot of grouse, crows, magpies, etc
along the line.                         
That night I will never forget. Huddled up in

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