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village station of Candas in the Dept. of Somme. Marching about eight miles we reached the reserve billets at Domart-en-Ponthieu a little village nestling in a most beautiful little valley. Small copses of larch, beech & spruce in full leaf were scattered over the gently sloping hillsides down which the road with its avenue of line trees twined. Fields of wheat & oats interspersed with blaze's of poppies rose in terraces from the clear brook which ran through the valley.
Domart-en-Ponthieu is a rather ancient village with a queer church commanding a view of the valley perched on the hill-side. This edifice is some 900 years old, & of an architecture quite unique though it probably is of the Roman type.
Leaving Domart at 9 oclock12th July we marched some 7 miles southward
[Sketch of soldier outdoors with cooking pots over a fire, pots hanging from tree, makeshift cupboards, captioned: Our Cooking at Sailly-sur-lys 6th July 16]