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Updated: May 20, 2025
We were nearing Ypres, that shell-battered city of Flanders. White balls of smoke here and there were bursting among the ruins, showing that the Huns were still shelling it. What a frightful state the earth was in.
Just rank luxuriant vegetation, run wild untouched for more than a year. Suddenly out of the mist there loomed the Ritz the name of the broken-down, shell-battered house which served his late companion as an O.P. The Sapper gave the message as requested, and stepped down three stairs into the communication trench, which passed close under one of the crumbling walls.
And this is what our men have had to go through. The longed-for relief comes at last a change to other shell-battered areas in support or reserve and the battalion comes back down the long road to the rear, white-faced and dreary-eyed, dragging slowly through the mud without a word.
He continued curled up in the big armchair retrieved from the attic of the shell-battered Château d'Enghien. He concluded the great work sitting cross-legged on his bed, and the very restlessness which the story provoked was a sure sign of its gripping interest.
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