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of the most intense fighting throughout the war.
Ypres salient looking towards Menin Gate (photo: Lizzie Le Blond)
With no motor transport available, she set off on what proved
to be a tedious journey, from Montreuil to Calais by slow train,
and from there by even slower stages to Hazebrouck, where she
spent a miserably cold night in a room with linen instead of glass
across the windows and a shattered ceiling. Leaving at 6am the
following morning, she boarded a train for Poperinghe, nine
miles from Ypres, together with a few soldiers and numbers of
returning refugees, and was fortunate to find there an officer who
knew one of her innumerable cousins and could arrange
accommodation for her. Best of all, he was due to go on a tour
of inspection to Ypres that same afternoon, and was willing to
take her with him.
Despite her personal experience of the effects of conflict, it is
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