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matter what your denomination, they made good in France.
There were stacks of captured machine guns in Corbie Fritz must have had more of them, than we had Lewis guns, and we had 2 of these to a platoon. There were also some giant minnenwerfers one was the biggest I have ever seen, being over a foot across. On the 28th we took buses along the Bray Corbie road and bumped along the road, over the old line at Morlancourt it looked ghostly in the twilight, passing the now empty trenches and shell holes of a few months previous, some of our comrades are sleeping here under the poppies. But they too too are faded away, and new ones will redden the fields next spring., Poppies in Picardie, so is the world. We got out of the buses on the side of a gully and tramped for quite a long time some Gothas droned heavily overhead and the gully resounded to their bombs. We camped for the early part of the day in some old trenches, and then we marched along the side of the Somme valley and round into a gully, in which there was a railway and some of our old workshops left in the March retreat. Fritz had tried to break one of his engines, but one of our oil engines, was fit to work. The workshops were principally sawmills and there were stacks of mouldering logs around, Fritz had not used the sawmill a great deal at all, and there were still great piles of French briquette coal left there from the