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| 1917 | |
| Apl 25 | Anzac Day. A sort of half hearted holiday, only that one had to do as one was told |
| Apl 26 | Left Etaples with reinforcements for 15th Field Company of Australian Engineers, somewhere in France. Caught train at Etaples, after having been served with rations in plenty, and set out along our journey, we knew not whither. We might have been going to Berlin, for all we knew. We were stuffed into horse carriages, which were branded "eight horses or 40 men." We did not care as there were plenty of sights to witness as we made our way across the map of France, and the door openings in the horse boxes were much more preferable to the dingy little window openings in the French carriages, as we knew them. We arrived at Albert at 3 and went into the Anzac Drafting Camp for the night. After cleaning up a bit, we got our orders and returned to Albert to see if there was such a thing as a restaurant among its pitiable ruins. It seemed to us to be a mere heap of bricks and told us in advance of what we could expect in the zones more adjacent to the firing line. We spent an hour or so having a look round the town, at the shattered shops, Church with the famous leaning virgin on its shattered tower, of which the French inhabitants held the belief that the day upon which this statue fell the war would cease. We got tired after a while, and after unloading our rations waggon, supplying our own needs in plenty, not only immdeiate but well into the future, we turned in for the night, as we knew that we had a hard day's marching before us in the morning. |
| Apl 27 | Fell in about 8.am. Were given orders that we would march to our various companies in charge of certain N.C.O's. Our particular group, together with the reinforcements for the 8th Field Company, set out towards the village that once was Mametz, in the now |
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