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[Page 207]

[Wednesday 12 July]

The end of the journey came at about 2 A.M. we were bundled out on to a dreary siding sleepy & hungry & were set work getting the horses out. They started us marching at daylight. Through Pont de Metz [Pont-de-Metz] towards Amiens 5 kilos away. When within 2 kilos of the town we swung round it in a grand circle as we had done Baillule [Bailleul], and passing through Avers [?], came back on to the main road at one of the suburbs on the other side called Montieres. Just before that we passed a brigade of French infantry marching in an opposite direction to us. We kept straight on through [Drueil?] [Dreuil-les-Amiens?] & Brielly [Breilly] till we reached the Somme at Allie-sur-Somme [Ailly-sur-Somme], we marched through there & came to rest at Picquigny where we were billeted. We are very done  up as we did close on 12 miles today on top of a pretty near sleepless night in the train. We are told that we are now about 40 miles behind the fighting on the Somme. We have now marched 50 miles in 4 days.

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