January 1919.
The Field Amb. march away from Fresnoy-le-Grand at 9am on 5/3/19 and arrive at Troisvillers at 3pm, a distance of 14 miles. Biletted at old, empty houses.
(written in a French Hand)
Chazot Lafarge
Troisvillers
Nord
France
Epilogue
He lost colleagues, friend’s colleagues and acquaintances, lads he had been to school and church with, or worked with or knew as neighbours. He saw death and wounds of the most terrible kind; he tended to men of both sides. Army life sent him to strange places, to suffer hard living conditions, privations, long spells away from home, and all the usual petty impositions inflicted on soldiers. Frank never complained; he got on with what he had to do, and even put himself in harms way to save others from harm. Many of his colleagues had the same stamp as Frank; young inexperienced men, still just boys in most ways, who had to grow up in a few weeks and carry out duties that were unimaginable in their civilian life.
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