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marching through her streets just outside Ypres runs the Yser & the bridge over her for a wonder still stands, we crossed this & made for the firing line, everything about here shows the signs hard usuage & there are great shell holes everywhere in the roads, fields, the railway line torn up & such like gentle reminders that shells hurt.

As we went along the German flares lit the whole country up & from these strings of flares we could see we were in a huge horseshoe otherwise the "Ypres Salient" it was round about the part that the Germans made their first gas attack on the Canadians & French

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