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[top left] June
[top right] 6th Month 1916
58 hours train journey
[centred] 26 Monday
Soon after 4 am stopped at Steinbecque [sic]
near Belgian border. Practically same
place as Hazebrouck. Pretty village
went to little batch of huts, rats about
damp place, milk at farmhouse. Only
about 8 miles from firing line. Guns
to be heard. Now in Morbecque. 2 hrs
leave, strolled up to Hasebrouck [sic] & saw inside
of Cathedral, very pretty. Our train up had 45 trucks
Heavy rain at night, huts wet. Guns thundering
all night.
[centred] 27 Tuesday

Raining when we awoke, no parade. Officers
billeting in houses. Still on biscuits & bully Aust.
and Tommies not very friendly.

[centred] 28 Wednesday

Route march with packs up
in morning - Nothing for rest
of day. Visited Hasebrouck [sic] in
afternoon and went into beautiful
R. C. Church out of curiosity.
Leave stopped to Hasebrouck [sic].
Germans came through here
before but not Morbecque.

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susuh50

Hazebrouck is the correct spelling.

AStarcher