Alma Russell Letters
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| − | magazines, slightly different from Ypres which was further behind this line! It was awfully interesting coming up the line from Rouen we passed, in the train, through the Somme battlefield or part of it, it is just a vast delolate | + | magazines, slightly different from Ypres which was further behind this line! It was awfully interesting coming up the line from Rouen we passed, in the train, through the Somme battlefield or part of it, it is just a vast delolate waste with ruins and piles of rubble here and there but somehow it seems peaceful, it gave me a queer sensation to see the remains of a village where we almost got wiped out in July '16 from the window of a train - out of sound of the guns now. The "hanging Virgin" at |
BC Archives, MS-1901 Box 1 File 11 / RUSSELL, Alma M., 1873 - 1964. Victoria; librarian. / Selected miscellaneous letters and ephemera, 1914 - 1917. | BC Archives, MS-1901 Box 1 File 11 / RUSSELL, Alma M., 1873 - 1964. Victoria; librarian. / Selected miscellaneous letters and ephemera, 1914 - 1917. | ||
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magazines, slightly different from Ypres which was further behind this line! It was awfully interesting coming up the line from Rouen we passed, in the train, through the Somme battlefield or part of it, it is just a vast delolate waste with ruins and piles of rubble here and there but somehow it seems peaceful, it gave me a queer sensation to see the remains of a village where we almost got wiped out in July '16 from the window of a train - out of sound of the guns now. The "hanging Virgin" at
BC Archives, MS-1901 Box 1 File 11 / RUSSELL, Alma M., 1873 - 1964. Victoria; librarian. / Selected miscellaneous letters and ephemera, 1914 - 1917.