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There were black Senegalese, and Highlanders in kilts, and little lorry-drivers from Siam, all moving slowly along between rows of cabarets and cinema theatres. The wide-spreading branches of the plane trees met overhead, shutting out the sky and roofing in the orange glare.
"There are some French lorries in front, sir, and the sentry won't open the bridge gates to let them cross." I felt puzzled and angered, and rode forward to question the French sentry. Half a dozen protesting lorry-drivers stood round him. The bridge did lead to Varesnes, he admitted, but it was only a light bridge, and he had orders to allow no military traffic over it.
The enemy's activity against our back area was at its height at the end of August, 1917. Casualty Clearing Stations were both bombed and shelled. Near Poperinghe nurses were killed. No service forward of Corps Headquarters but had its casualties. Our lorry-drivers' work was fraught with danger.
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