vaux-sur-somme

Updated: May 12, 2025

They had their own lovers boys in blue somewhere between Vaux-sur-Somme and Hartmanns weilerkopf and apart from occasional intimacies with English officers quartered in Amiens for long spells, left the traffic of passion to other women who walked the streets.

Philip Gibbs - Now It Can Be Told

Behind, in a sweeping semicircle round their village and ours, were the German trenches and the German guns. I looked into the streets of both villages as clearly as one may see into Clovelly village from the crest of the hill. In Vaux-sur-Somme a few British soldiers were strolling about. One was sitting on the window-sill of a cottage, kicking up his heels.

Philip Gibbs - Now It Can Be Told

One of the most curious little schools of courage inhabited by British soldiers in early days was the village of Vaux-sur-Somme, which we took over from the French, who were our next-door neighbors at the village of Frise in the summer of '15. After the foul conditions of the salient it seemed unreal and fantastic, with a touch of romance not found in other places.

Philip Gibbs - Now It Can Be Told