Two Brothers Serving in France, item 46
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... Left Side
barbed-wire and chasing him out of his
positions. From the colored military maps that
I see at the Khaki College, I notice that the
big offensive which drove the Germans out
of the Cambrai district, was begun on the
27th September, So that Angus must
have fallen at the very beginning of that
victorious movement. I examined all
the stranded tanks carefully. Of course
there were one or two which were beyond
identification, being so much dismembered
and broken.
I paid a visit to the Cemetery and found
everything as tidy there as it was when Ebbie
Steel and I visited it a month ago. The cross
we erected was still to the fore. I noticed
that somebody had, in the interval, erected
a special cross on the grave next to Angus's
- that of his chum Helens, who was killed
the same day. There was nothing to show
who put it there - only the big cross, painted
white, and lettered rather clumsily in black.
... Right side
It looked like the work of one of his chums.
Flesquieres was still quiet and deserted, altho'
there are a few Tommies in it now, and a
big gang of "Chinks" (Chinese Labour Corps)
engaged on salvage work. The village is
exactly 12 kilometres (7 1/2 miles) from Cambrai.
It is quite an interesting walk-through
the fortified country of the Hindenburg Line
- so I did not weary en route. I was tired
when I got home, all the same, but waiting
me were letters from mother, you, and Nellie,
so that tired feeling soon disappeared!
On the road I was wondering if some day
I will be piloting you round these interesting
places. I know all the roads so well now
that I would just love to conduct you
round. Well, it can be done, anyway. When
the Continent has quietened down, it will be
easy to cross the Channel, stay in Cambrai
a few days, and go out to Flesquieres at our
leisure. So we will keep it in mind. It is
the prospect of a trip like that which spurs
me on in the effort to pick up French.
-
... Left Side
barbed-wire and chasing him out of his
positions. From the colored military maps that
I see at the Khaki College, I notice that the
big offensive which drove the Germans out
of the Cambrai district, was begun on the
27th September, So that Angus must
have fallen at the very beginning of that
victorious movement. I examined all
the stranded tanks carefully. Of course
there were one or two which were beyond
identification, being so much dismembered
and broken.
I paid a visit to the Cemetery and found
everything as tidy there as it was when Ebbie
Steel and I visited it a month ago. The cross
we erected was still to the fore. I noticed
that somebody had, in the interval, erected
a special cross on the grave next to Angus's
- that of his chum Helens, who was killed
the same day. There was nothing to show
who put it there - only the big cross, painted
white, and lettered rather clumsily in black.
... Right side
It looked like the work of one of his chums.
Flesquieres was still quiet and deserted, altho'
there are a few Tommies in it now, and a
big gang of "Chinks" (Chinese Labour Corps)
engaged on salvage work. The village is
exactly 12 kilometres (7 1/2 miles) from Cambrai.
It is quite an interesting walk-through
the fortified country of the Hindenburg Line
- so I did not weary en route. I was tired
when I got home, all the same, but waiting
me were letters from mother, you, and Nellie,
so that tired feeling soon disappeared!
On the road I was wondering if some day
I will be piloting you round these interesting
places. I know all the roads so well now
that I would just love to conduct you
round. Well, it can be done, anyway. When
the Continent has quietened down, it will be
easy to cross the Channel, stay in Cambrai
a few days, and go out to Flesquieres at our
leisure. So we will keep it in mind. It is
the prospect of a trip like that which spurs
me on in the effort to pick up French.
-
... Left Side
barbed-wire and chasing him out of his
positions. From the colored military maps that
I see at the Khaki College, I notice that the
big offensive which drove the Germans out
of the Cambrai district, was begun on the
27th September, So that Angus must
have fallen at the very beginning of that
victorious movement. I examined all
the stranded tanks carefully. Of course
there were one or two which were beyond
identification, being so much dismembered
and broken.
I paid a visit to the Cemetery and found
everything as tidy there as it was when Ebbie
Steel and I visited it a month ago. The cross
we erected was still to the fore. I noticed
that somebody had, in the interval, erected
a special cross on the grave next to Angus's
- that of his chum Helens, who was killed
the same day. There was nothing to show
who put it there - only the big cross, painted
white, and lettered rather clumsily in black.
... Right side
It looked like the work of one of his chums.
Flesquieres was still quiet and deserted, altho'
there are a few Tommies in it now, and a
big gang of "Chinks" (Chinese Labour Corps)
engaged on salvage work. The village is
exactly 12 kilometres (7 1/2 miles) from Cambrai.
It is quite an interesting walk-through
the fortified country of the Hindenburg Line
- so I did not weary en route. I was tired
when I got home, all the same, but waiting
me were letters from mother, you, and Nellie,
so that tires feeling soon disappeared!
On the road I was wondering if some day
I will be piloting you round these interesting
places. I know all the roads so well now
that I would just love to conduct you
round. Well, it can be done, anyway. When
the Continent has quietened down, it will be
easy to cross the Channel, stay in Cambrai
a few days, and go out to Flesquieres at our
leisure. So we will keep it in mind. It is
the prospect of a trip like that which spurs
me on in the effort to pick up French.
-
... Left Side
barbed-wire and chasing him out of his
positions. From the colored military maps that
I see at the Khaki College, I notice that the
big offensive which drove the Germans out
of the Cambrai district, was begun on the
27th September, So that Angus must
have fallen at the very beginning of that
victorious movement. I examined all
the stranded tanks carefully. Of course
there were one or two which were beyond
identification, being so much dismembered
and broken.
I paid a visit to the Cemetery and found
everything as tidy there as it was when Ebbie
Steel and I visited it a month ago. The cross
we erected was still to the fore. I noticed
that somebody had, in the interval, erected
a special cross on the grave next to Angus's
- that of his chum Helens, who was killed
the same day. There was nothing to show
who put it there - only the big cross, painted
white, and lettered rather clumsily in black.
... Right side
It looked like the work of one of his chums.
Flesquieres was still quiet and deserted, altho'
there are a few ... in it now, and a
big gang of "Chinks" (Chinese Labour Corps)
engaged on salvage work. The village is
exactly 12 kilometres (7 1/2 miles) from Cambrai.
It is quite an interesting walk-through
the fortified country of the Hindenburg Line
- so I did not weary en route. I was tired
when I got home, all the same, but waiting
me were letters from mother, you, and Nellie,
so that tires feeling soon disappeared!
On the road I was wondering if some day
I will be piloting you round these interesting
places. I know all the roads so well now
that I would just love to conduct you
round. Well, it can be done, anyway. When
the Continent has quietened down, it will be
easy to cross the Channel, stay in Cambrai
a few days, and go out to Flesquieres at our
leisure. So we will keep it in mind. It is
the prospect of a trip like that which spurs
me on in the effort to pick up French.
-
... Left Side
barbed-wire and chasing him out of his
positions. From the colored military maps that
I see at the Khaki College, I notice that the
big offensive which drove the Germans out
of the Cambrai district, was begun on the
27th September, So that Angus must
Have fallen at the very beginning of that
victorious movement. I examined all
the stranded tanks carefully. Of course
there were one or two which were beyond
identification, being so much dismembered
and broken.
I paid a visit to the Cemetery and found
everything as tidy there as it was when Ebbie
Steel and I visited it a month ago. The cross
we erected was still to the fore. I noticed
that somebody had, in the interval, erected
a special cross on the grave next to Angus's
- that of his chum Helens, who was killed
the same day. There was nothing to show
who put it there - only the big cross, painted
white, and lettered rather clumsily in black.
... Right side
It looked like the work of one of his chums.
Flesquieres was still quiet and deserted, altho'
there are a few ... in it now, and a
big gang of "Chinks" (Chinese Labour Corps)
engaged on salvage work. The village is
exactly 12 kilometres (7 1/2 miles) from Cambrai.
It is quite an interesting walk-through
the fortified country of the Hindenburg Line
- so I did not weary en route. I was tired
when I got home, all the same, but waiting
me were letters from mother, you, and Nellie,
so that tires feeling soon disappeared!
On the road I was wondering if some day
I will be piloting you round these interesting
places. I know all the roads so well now
that I would just love to conduct you
round. Well, it can be done, anyway. When
the Continent has quietened down, it will be
easy to cross the Channel, stay in Cambrai
a few days, and go out to Flesquieres at our
leisure. So we will keep it in mind. It is
the prospect of a trip like that which spurs
me on in the effort to pick up French.
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- Tony Burns Langenegger
February 16, 1919 – February 16, 1919
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