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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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