TCD MS 11290/42 folio 1 verso
[13th November 1918] We have been marching forward a good bit & have got to a country with a few horses & cows in it at last.
The country is rich land very highly cultivated with lots of woods and trees and not too flat. Very pleasant country to be passing through in bright frosty weather like we are having now.
Everywhere along the road we meet crowds of civilians evacuated by the Germans trekking back with their belongings either on their back or in wheelbarrows. They live mostly on carrots or beetroots which they pick as they go along. Today we have met a few English prisoners of war who have