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20.12.17
Belgium

My dear Florrie

Here we are again what! what! right here. Yesterday I wandered over an ancient battlefield 5 months old now but oh how altered. Dame Nature does her side of the work silently an quietly, time soon levels the trenches in which men have crawled too & fro for months & years, shell holes soon grass over after a few months the only real evidences of war exist in the battered trees & houses. I've seen great woods without a single whole tree, yesterday we passed a few heaps of bricks & pieces of iron, "that's --" said our guide. I'm glad he told us we could never have recognised it, before the war it must have been a good sized village & in a lovely situation too, our job was

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