Taylor war diary, 16 January 1916-22 July 1919 / Tom Taylor - Page 200
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and they did get a cheer with their snow white rifle slings bright buttons and badges presenting to a mob of mud bespattered Ausies.
All along the road were villages some of them uninhabitable while others were in good condition. Here and there a few crosses in a heap told where there had been a stand up fight but for most of the way it had been a running battle.
Everywhere one looked in a place at all inhabitable were french civilians already settling down to work to build up the old home while out in the fields they were already ploughing. About 5 pm we arrived at Favril and went straight away into Billets and then went looking for some tea as we were just about famished after our long march. That night we had a good bed of dried grass and I slept like a top until next morning when we had