Cocks letter diary, 1916-1919 / Verner Cocks - Page 513
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3.
a law lecturer. I think I will be required as a pianist more than as an instructor though.
Just before leaving Valines Jack & I got two days leave & paid a last visit to the old battle fields round Villers-Brettoneux - This is what I wrote in my diary about the trip:-
8/3/19
Caught 5 am train to Abbeville & hopped a "goodser" to Amiens. Breakfasted off chips & eggs & proceeded along the road to Vill-Bret. hoping to hop a lorry but none came so we went back into Amiens & spent the night at the Commerce Hotel. Amiens is going again - trains are running & the place is very gay. A fair part of the town has been smashed. The cathedral has had two shells through it but not much damage done. The inside & outside are still sandbagged & the statues inside are not replaced yet.
9/3/19
Caught 5 am train to Corbie arrived at 5.30 am & slept on station till daylight. This is the town we passed through