Diary of John Henry Fisher, item 51

• December 21, 2017 18:31:11 Thomas A. Lingner

  last place of roughing it

  Friday Nov 1 Austria & 

  Turkey signed armistice

  Monday Nov 4 G- birthday 11 yrs

  Monday Nov 11 Heard church

  bells ringing, heard later 

  armistice had been signed

  we went out to work on 

  building railway bridge

  over road at Troyennes

  Wednesday Nov 13 Digging

  mines from under railway

  track at Troyennes, where

  Fritz had placed them to 

  blow up the line during

  his last rapid retreat, this

  was extremely dangerous

  work, for if the metal

  cap on the shell happened 

  to be struck by a pick or

  anything hard, up would

  go the whole show, our

  
  

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