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put in the night. "Daours" was rather a sad sight. The people had fled & abandoned all their belongings, the houses stood just as they were, furniture, pots & pans, pictures on the walls & books on the shelves. Most of the livestock such as fowls had already been used by the soldiers but our fellows procured a few also some rabbbits. A few guns were banging away & some of the roads were mined as the hun was only some 4 miles away. "Aubigny" was a smaller place but equally deserted & it had already been well looted by the various soldiers who had passed through, all livestock had disappeared with the exception of pigeons & there were quite 200 of these flying about wildly as each gun fired. Clothes, books etc were strewn all over the place & hay & wheat was lying about the lofts being trampled on by all & sundry. A small cottage allotted for our mess when cleaned up was first rate & we had dinkum crockery for a change. After tea set to & fixed up a dressing room as the line was only 3 miles distant. Had 4 sick in from