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the 19th and 20th did and we followed them.
His balloon was just on the horizon when we started and at 4 oclock it was still on the horizon. The balloons are fastened to motor cars and towed back or forward by them. We could see Bray in the distance on the left, when we were on some of the rises. We stopped for the night in the top bank of a gully a pretty deep one. In the gully was a town I forget its name I don't think it was Cappy it might have been Dompere. Fritz had had a C,C,S, there but bombs or shells had smashed it. I got some bed ticking, from one brand new and made of paper bag. A,S,C, were pulling into the town and a six inch howitzer battery, had taken a pozzy up on a piece of flat land, in the gully and were firing out of it on the retreating germans, so they told me. Men were never made to stand up against ironmongery like this", said the artilleryman I hope this'll be the last war, Lloyd George says it will, and we all hoped the same. You see that balloon pointing to one just a mile or so behind, towering like a huge sausage in the sky; well, we ring up, hello! balloon for observations. On a hill behind were some Senegalese graves of 1915 they have rounded boards for headstones. There were some old french graves and a good few new german ones; one in death. In the town I saw a copy of "Le Matin" and the news was great, we were advancing everywhere. We didn't sleep too well through the night, because the 6 inchers kept