Item 01: T. J. Cleary diary, 8 March 1916 - 15 August 1917 - Page 143
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[Page 143]
The Town Hall site. I believe the Germans removed the Statue it supported. I seen Jimmy Clarke [?] last Sunday on a disabled ambulance. The Germans have a memorial in the Cemetery very close to a similar French one. Fritz keeps shelling. It has been decided to abandon this site. One of the Boys J. Davis 2nd Batt. got very drunk on Monday & kept us awake listening to an imaginary Bombardment. On the way up we passed a kind of a chalk quarry called the Butte near Warlencourt. Our fellows who were killed in the stunt on the 14/11/16 remained unburied until the day after we came to Bapaume.
Easter Sunday 8-4
Fritz put a couple of duds right alongside the Huts we abandoned. He also got 6 Men & 20 Horses with another shell among the Transport