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and came out again. Late that evening traffic was going along the road, even staff cars were flying along down it. The country in front appeared to be grassy plain & slightly undulating, and away on the right a fine spire rose up Harbonnieres, I roofed my bit of trench with an old door and some iron, and camped securely for the night, I slept the sleep of the just, I always do.
About 12 o'clock we got our loads together to march up and attack Framerville, from where the 5th divvy had dug in. For Fritz had come back and occupied it again after the armored cars had left it. It and Rainecourte were about 2 kilos in front of where the 5th divvy had dug in. It was a bright sunny day, with a few thunder clouds dotted here and there over the sky. The grass was deep and green, and it would have been fine except that it was warm and tramping made one perspire a good deal for we were heavily loaded. We passed "Amiens Annie", it was on the railway line, on which it was drawn up and down by an engine, it had trucks for the crew and its shells. The gun and crew were captured intact.
Over the meadowland, cavalry and artillery, were grazing their horses. And tanks were moving slowly over the fields. At last we reached the 5th divvy, they were entrenched just at the rear of a highly embanked railway line. As we approached Fritz put over a few "wooly bears", as range shots I suppose; and a squad of his planes came over and started fireing at us but were soon driven off by ours. We rested for 5 minutes behind the embankment till the tanks