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Stretches out one long wide sweep of hedge, canal, fields & road. Our destination was Bayinghem & here we remained until Friday 20th when after marching to St. Omer we entrained for a destination of unknown name. However the following morning we awoke from a cramped sleep to find the fields snowy with frost & that we were about to detrain at Longpre . Marching about six miles from here we came to our billets at a village near Etoile. About twelve of us left with the transport en route for the front at Albert the on Sunday 22nd & after passing Picquigny & Flixicourt reached Argoeuves of about 5 miles from Amiens.
[Transcribers note: written across the above paragraph "Villers-sous-Ailly"]
Monday saw us again on the track & after some four miles we passed through Amiens coming out on the main road to Albert. This road was thronged with troops transports passing to & fro & with German prisoners working at drainage work. At dark after a march of some 35 kilos we 'arrived in the [indecipherable] ' city of Albert. The lights of the various camps resembled a large city while roads were just "a –chock" with traffic which rendered it most difficult to make headway. However after numerous stops we reached the battalion camp on the captured ground of Friecourt.
The following morning we again set out. The rain which had fallen steadily all night caused the roads to be beaten ankle deep in mud. Progress was necessarily slow – so that we reached Marmetz at about 4 P.M. the scene from the woods was wonderful. On all the hills, in the rain, both infantry & calvary were