June 13th 1918. 
	  Eats are not very plentiful 
	  so I often raid the kitchen 
	  in order to fill up.  Hard- 
	  tack & corned beef are in 
	  abundance, but who the 
	  devil can eat such stuff? 
	  Today I walked about 4 miles 
	  to the W.A.A.C. camp.  These 
	  girls work in Abbeyville 
	  during the day but as a 
	  raid occurs almost every 
	  night they are lorried 
	  out to these woods where 
	  they sleep on the ground 
	  in tents.  They are all either 
	  British, Scotch, Irish or 
	  Canadian girls. 
	   June 14th 1918. 
	   Today we marched to Domvast 
	  France where we were 
	  issued gas-masks.  We 
	  were put thru the Lachsy- 
	  meter chamber to test
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	  our masks, & when we 
	  removed them, our eyes 
	  burned considerable. 
	  June 18th, 1918. 
	   My!  What a day.  We left 
	  Chancy in full marching 
	  order & hiked to St Blimont 
	  21 miles distant.  I never 
	  saw so many men 
	  drop out exhausted.  My 
	  feet were full of blisters 
	  & every bone in my body 
	  ached.  It was a supreme 
	  test of endurance.  I am 
	  sleeping in an old French- 
	  man's wagon & as a result 
	  got a nice batch of 
	  cooties.  They are fine 
	  little friends to have 
	  crawling around on one 
	  body - bite like the 
	  devil.  These people dont 
	  understand our language 
	  so we have a lot of 
	  fun mis-naming things
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       Abbeyville (2005)
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