Lewis war diary, August 1917-March 1919 / James Ray Lewis - Page 75
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[Page 75]
the town stands the cathedral forming a beautiful mark for Fritz. The UK land cavalry came through Allonville in the invasion of 1914 so one of the French boys told me.
After about a week here we set out for the line, by the eventide we reached Querrieux and were alotted to our billets when a shell came and killed 2 of the band. Old Fritz had seen us enter from his balloons and started to open fire with a long range gun. We were lined up, and hurried out of the town and camped in some trenches for the night.
Behind the lines one can see the ballons on either side strung along the lines following every curve of them.
That evening we set out along the Bray Corbie road and early that night we were going into the front line at Morlancourt. We came along the road until we could see one anothers faces by the light of his flares, and until we could hear an odd bullet zip off the road, and then we took a communication trench to the line. I got my pozzy and a german overcoat so I was right. Our Lewis gun team had a T trench to occupy, i.e. a trench shaped like a T projecting out from the main line and occupying a commanding