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deep, here was the explanation, the ground was soft and the bombs were intended for the hard ballasted railway, if such had not been the case, we would have all been crowsmeat. We were here as reserves in old trenches of 1915, and some of the party were sent salvageing for the war museum to be, they got everything from pullthrough rags up to the shell cases of Amiens Annie which were quite 4..6 inch high and contained so it is said 14£ worth of brass.
We went for a bath to Bayonvillers one of the recaptured towns. Here one hands their underclothing in, full of live chats and receives other underclothing full of dead ones. The baths are small pipes with holes punched in, and when one goes in they dribble enough on one to wet him all over, then it is shut off and one lathers oneself and then it is turned on long enough to wash the lather off.
They had now got the railway line connected up over the system of trenches at Villers Brettoneux and a train stole up one evening and pulled Amiens Annie away. They are putting in artillary every day now and something will be doing again soon. I went and had a look around some of the villages nothing much there though.
One night we marched to Bayonvillers and motor buses took us to Fouillary, a suburb of Corbie. Tommies and Jocks took our places. H, C, Y, L, I s I think of the tommies.
Chapter XIII The Advance toward Peronne, Mont St Quentin
We were camped in tents just on edge of the town not far from the Somme river. Fouilloy is a ruin 50% of the houses are no more than 4 feet high. One street however leading down to the river is in very