Item 03: Archie Barwick diary, 10 May-23 July 1916 - Page 128
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trenches.
I was on the 12.30. to 4. relief but nothing of any importance happened except the murder of a large rat by me, the place fairly swarm's with them you can see them all over the place at night time, such big fellows too.
Right close to where I am writing there is the ruins of a large convent the building itself is absolutely smashed to pieces, it must have been a pretty place before the war for a moat surrounded it, & from what I can see of it the Germans almost made a little fort of it only the walls which enclosed this convent are left & they are as you might guess full of shell holes & falling down everywhere it was in this place that the German's committed some of the worst crimes of the war on the French sisters, & the girl students who were living there at the time of the German invasion