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An Onlooker in France 1917-1919

CHAPTER VIII ( p
3/19

"Hunchie" was a wonder, so was Madame, and so was their dog "Black." One spot in Paris, the Gare du Nord, will always mean a lot to the British Army on the Western Front.

What sights one saw there!--masses of humanity, mostly British officers and men, each with their little (p.

056) "movement order": there they were in the heart of the Gay City.

Yet that little slip of paper would, in a couple of hours, send them to Amiens, and a little later they would be at the front suffering Hell.
Laboreur did a wonderful etching of an officer bidding farewell to his wife at the Gare du Nord.

It gave the whole tragedy of the place--the blackness, smoke, smell and crush.


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