TCD MS 10821 folio 7 recto
[June 5th 1916] was waiting in a siding. We were due to leave at 1.50 am but did not actually start till 5.30 am, so that we missed the connection at Abbeville.
Tues. June 6th. On arrival at Abbeville about 8 am, I found no more trains going up to rail head that day, so we have to wait till the following morning. We went to a hotel called the Tête de Boeuf in the town, a very old fashioned but quite comfortable inn & very fair food. The whole morning it poured with rain, but the afternoon proved finer. There are one or two very interesting churches in the town especially St Walpurgis which dates from about 1500 A.D. It has an extraordinarily lofty but short nave which gives it a queer appearance. There are many very old fashioned houses in the streets which are narrow & paved with cobbles, which gives the town an old-world look. I took a good walk in the evening along the banks of the Somme which runs in a most picturesque fashion through the town. In places gardens & fine trees line its banks & higher up were large Red Cross barges moored along the sides. Retired to bed early as we have an early start.
June 7th. Left Abbeville at 6.30 am in the Supply Train. I travelled up with the R.T.O. who gave me a breakfast in his compartment. We passed through quite pretty coun[try]