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                   October
Patients piled in thick & fast. 185
before 9 A.M. and more than 500
in next day. Continued shelling of
Beaumont Church steeple being
great target for Hun artillery
By the 10" had 876 patients, 14 ward
tents up & using all available houses
in Town
11" The great and happy day
Haven't heard a shot since last 
night. Every body happy over the 
Armistice
Hiked to Beaumont using church
and all available  buildings.
More patients than can care for.
Much better quarters.
Town not so badly shot up.
14-15-16" Routine work - cleaning
out patients and all who think can't
stand march into Germany to start
17", occupy Coblenz area.
Have seen a great many prisoners
coming thru especially at St. Mihiel
Suippes and Charpentry.
German dead along road on all
this part of front.  Saw more than
at Thiacourt or Suippes.

Left Beaumont on 17" first hike
3 K beyond Stenay where pitched
tent in field.  Very cold night.
Stenay shot to pieces and not a
bridge left. 3 in the town blown
up and valley flooded.
Evidence of hasty retreat of Huns
everywhere.
18" left 11 A.M. hiking thru Baal-
just beyond which saw last shell-
hole, & where battle-line was when
Armistice was signed.
On to Chantensy meeting many refugees
and returning Eng. prisoners, expected
to billet here but ordered on to
Verneuil le Grand, via Montmedy.
Outfit quartered in large house used
by Huns.
   Quantities of Ger. material at
Montmedy "Verboten" signs all about.
In house with old Priest whom Gers. had
held prisoner in one room for 4 yrs.