Item 03: Archie Barwick diary, 10 May-23 July 1916 - Page 221
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oceans of pretty flowers, such as poppies red as blood, daisies marigolds, buttercups, violets, wild roses, of all colours & descriptions, & a wild flower a good deal like a carnation, it was as blue as blue can bee, a Royal blue I should call it, I reckon it is the prettiest wild flower as ever I have seen, it grows all over the place & makes the country look something splendid, one can never forget France. When we reached Hazebrouck we were shunted on to another line & off we went, noone knew where, but as we all guessed towards the "Somme"
There was a funny thing happened about 10 oclock on the train, it was getting very cold & we were shutting all the windows & doors on the truck, after they were all closed, everyone settled down on top of one another or anywhere they