11th July (Sunday)
Visit museum and cathedral with Mme Blampean, Leontine and Marcel. Buy chocolate in shop, served by a woman with a beard. Visit Leontine's Grandma. Unload revolver (!!), listen to musical box.
Scotch troops pass. receive badges Royal A. Pleasant evening at farm.
Sergeant Major Henry Bangert of the Royal Army Medical Corps was posted to France as soon as WW1 started and kept a diary for the time that he was there until he was invalided out in Feb 1916. He wrote almost daily, recording his day to day activities, comments from newspapers and his work in field hospitals. He reported on the military acton that was taking place around him.
Saturday, 11 July 2015
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