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Church Army Recreation Hut
Ault Onival
Coast of France
​Jany 21st 1918 [possibly 1919]
Dear Herbert & Jess.
I am at present at the 3rd Army Military School with Lieut Nix as his Batman. We left Felleries where the Battalion is on the 9th, & went by Motor Bus to Charleroi in Belgium. We crossed the Belgian Border about 9 o'clock & arrived at Charleroi at 1.30 pm.
We stopped here until 9 am next morning. It is a fine big City & is as busy as Sydney. You can get everything you want here which is surprising after considering the rough time Belgium has had. Things are terribly dear. I had a few meals there & one shop charged me 5 Francs (4/2) & I thought that a very good reason for pinching his knife fork & spoon which I did. We left Charleroi (pronounced by the Belgians Sharlewarr) at 9 am & passed 20 Ammunition trains of Fritz's which our airmen blew up. Most of the Rolling Stock I have seen in Belgium are German, still with the German writing on it. We travelled to Mons in a captured German train Engine & all.