Brown diary, 1916-1917 / Allan Dunn Brown - Page 87
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[Page 87]
we could not get water. We left this place en-route for Albert where the big push started from, before getting to Albert we had to pass a village by the name of Ballon which is full of Tommies. When Albert was in sight we could see the big bronze monument on the top of the big Catheridal which is entirely destroyed by the Germans. I may say this bronze statue was pulled over by the French engineers, because the German's used to use it as a land mark for artillery and it is now leaning over the road-way, and all the old French people of this part believes when this monument falls peace will be declared soon afterwards but I think their hopes are doomed as it has been braced up so as it wont fall.
After marching through this doomed town which is a mass