Item 05: E. J. Martin diary, 3 February-2 May 1917 - Page 47
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[Page 47]
a choice military camp salubriously situated in a muddy area.
While here I went over the field of Pozieres - under snow - and it was a sad & desolate spectacle; all the trees about there bare & stricken by shell fire as if by a comprehensive blast of lightning. I was told that our glorious dead lay there for months before being interred. On this field the Australians won, lost & regained their ground with a dogged pertinacity unsurpassed by any of the glorious achievements of the famous Light Division in the Peninsular War.
During our rest at Mametz
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