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To anyone who had seen Hazelbrouck previously ( & my old unit had been camped about there for months) the scenes of desolation wrought by the German advances were appalling. Hazelbrouck but for a few soldiers was ruinous & dead. Borre where I was stationed with my gun teams lay in close proximity to the line & therefore under German batteries, the familiar old ventilator of the mill at Strazule had fallen in the ruins of the place, the churches of Pradelles & Caestre once such familiar landmarks now raised scarred & almost unrecognisable steeples over their respective battered villages, & of the Sec Bois where the old 2nd Batt has rested on the edge of the Nieppe Forest nothing could be made out save crumbling farm buildings.