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Updated: June 17, 2025
The roads were encumbered with long convoys of provisions for the troops, ambulances, Red Cross motor-cars, gun-wagons, and farm carts. Two regiments of Belgian cavalry the chasseurs a cheval were dismounted and bivouacked with their horses drawn up in single line along the roadway for half a mile or more.
With the superintendent of the commissariat department an Italian lady with a pretty sense of humour and a devil-may-care courage which she inherited from Stuart ancestors I went on a shopping expedition into the black gulfs of Fumes, stumbling into holes and jerking up against invisible gun-wagons, but bringing back triumphantly some fat bacon and, more precious still, some boxes of tallow candles, of great worth in a town which had lost its gas.
His corridors resounded to the tramp of army boots. The Ulster gunners had made their headquarters in the refectory, but did not stay there long. A few days later the monastery was a ruin. From many little villages caught by the oncoming tide of war our soldiers helped the people to escape in lorries or on gun-wagons. They did not weep, nor say much, but were wonderfully brave.
Presently Childs looked up, listened, and said: "It's rather quiet, sir, outside." "So much the better," growled General Macready. "Get on with your job." A quarter of an hour passed. No rumble of traffic passed by the windows. No gun-wagons were jolting over French pave. Colonel Childs looked up again and listened. "It's damned quiet outside, sir."
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