Item 02: Rodda war diary, 20 August 1917-10 October 1918 - Page 53
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[Page 53]
Travelled via Etaples, Abbeville, Bacouel, Serqueux, Sommery, Monterolier – Buchy, Morgny[-la-Pommeraye], Rouen, Maromme, Motteville to [Le] Havre arriving about 10pm. Marched to the Tommy Camp & given cup of tea & slice bread & dripping & after waiting over an hour marched to our base about 1am. Is very pretty around Rouen very hilly & several tunnels high embankments & viaducts on the railway. It has a great number of factories & seems a very big town altho' could not see too well on account of mist.
4/2/18 Slept in till 9.30am. Could not eat any breakfast as not feeling well. Was taken very sick in train after leaving Rouen having bit of dry retching. Wrote home.
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