Item 03: Archie Barwick diary, 10 May-23 July 1916 - Page 261
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cars, bicycles, & the ordinary push bicycle are as common as the soldiers who throng the little narrow cobble streets of this little French village.
I saw 3 English nurses walking through the streets this morning.
20th. Well after all I did not give my diary to the parson, as I was too late so I decided to chance it & carry it myself. We left our billets in a hurry, we got 10 minutes notice to pack up & fall in, we carried our blanket waterproof & overcoat rolled in bandolier fashion.
Had a pretty long & tiresome march & just outside Albert we pulled up & had tea on the roadside, we were now getting close to the scene of conflict for all around us great guns were firing.
After we had our tea we fell in again & marched through Albert, she has been