vaux-sous-corbie

Updated: July 12, 2026

A staff job, the Intelligence branch, any post behind the actual shambles and thank God for the luck. But not an absolute shirk. Tents were being pitched in many camps of the Somme, rows and rows of bell tents and pavilions stained to a reddish brown. Small cities of them were growing up on the right of the road between Amiens and Albert at Dernancourt and Daours and Vaux-sous-Corbie.

Philip Gibbs - Now It Can Be Told