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& get some supper, but can only get coffee & stick around & sing leave for bed at nine oclock.

Sunday Dec 3rd leave Blangermont at 9 AM for Baurs 14 miles. rotten breakfast. seemed like 114 my own boot on. I cant wear Cams very heavy march. Put into a farm, send a French kid to a shop out of bounds to buy some grub, get it cooked by the barber, good supper, & order breakfast, but no breakfast when we call for it. Monday Dec 4. up 6.45 AM. punk breakfast. march 10 miles to Bruay.

Bruay is a dirty little place with one decent street & a bit of a theatre where Soldier concert parties perform each night we are to be in divisional rest about ten days. Put into a hut on outskirts of Bruay. Pedlars come around quite a bit, even women before we are out of bed. get hot apple fritter in bed. Later moved into a billet about eight minutes from our camp, our new billet is a garret. We hang around this