Item 03: Walter Bruce Rainsford diary, 1 January 1916-31 December 1916 - Page 98
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Coquelle we reached our destination at 1.50 pm. when we immediately set to work on a good meal and then rode round the town to look at various places of interest – Gare Centrale, monument des Bourgeois de Calais, Place d'Armes, Le phare, lerport[?], gare maritime, quais du basin Carnot, Monument des Sauveteurs, la plage & le casino, les forts, Monument du Souvenir Francais, le parc, le nouveau Théâtre, Hotel des postes, Jardin Richelieu. The plage (beach) is a fine one & the best I have yet seen in France – the Casino faces right on to it and is now an R.A. [indecipherable] Hospital. The shipping arrangements with basins & canals are very complete. Of course I struck members of the local section of the Eclaireurs de France & also their