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179) A WELL-EARNED REST.
_May and June, 1917._ Three days after we had settled at Bruay I was invited by one of our staff officers and the Colonel of one of our battalions to accompany them on a visit to our old trenches on the Somme.

We left in the morning and went south, over the roads and past the little villages which we knew so well, till we came to Albert.

We went up the Bapaume road, now deserted and lonely.