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An Onlooker in France 1917-1919

CHAPTER V ( p
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And where was one?
Surely in a place and seeing a life that never existed before, and never will again.

The rapidity with which these Indians (they were a cleaning-up party) changed the whole face of Thiepval and that part of the Ancre Valley was incredible.
[Illustration: XIV.

_View from the Old English Trenches.

Looking towards La Boisselle._] When working in the Valley of the Ancre region, coming home in the evening, we would bring the car down to the water near Aveluy.

It is a long stretch of water, and the Tommies had put up a springboard.


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