Item 03: George R. Faulkner war diary, 6 July 1916-17 November 1916 - Page 106
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or perhaps a spy as 3 were caught to day. Partys on excavating – several got out alive – Two French M.P.s are missing as they slept in the cellars.
27/3/17 Tuesday
Dull & very cold – Very few casualtys.
28/3/17 Wednesday
Dull – very cold – several snow storms. Very quiet day & few casualtys. About all the missing have been recovered from the Town Hall, which is now hard to recognize as once being a fine building. I visited the Bapaume Cemetery – which is very fine & some beautiful Tombs & Headstones of marble & granite are to be seen. The Huns here have further outraged the French people & civilization by tearing up French graves & burying some 1000 odd soldiers – also obliterated head stones & re painted. The French have erected a monument in honour of her fallen soldiers also to commemorate the Recapture of Bapaume in 1871 – The Huns have erected a monument some 50 yards away as a set off against this to the memory of their dead, also to celebrate his taking of Bapaume 1914-1915. No doubt