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=== George Beck: August 5, 1944 === | |||
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What a marvellous procession, and everything made out of nothing. Each country represented and fun fair. Marvellous sight and it would do the people of England good to see it. Never seen anything like it before myself, with being on a small working party for the last three years. | |||
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—[[George Beck (nonfiction)|George Beck]],1st Battalion The Duke of Wellington's Regiment, prisoner of war (diary) | |||
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War Diary entries for August 5.
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Diaries
Basil Beebe Elmer: August 5, 1918
... We were now near the front line … We entered the line and drove, drove, drove. I can never describe it. It doesn't seem real. It is all a dream – a nightmare. Day after day, night after night, unceasingly. … Ollie Ames and Joyce Kilmer are buried side by side at the edge of the wood … I sat there yesterday, thinking. "Ollie, Ollie!" I thought of his wife and his mother. And I thought of you. How dear you two are to me! Nothing else matters to me – only you. … what a wonderful thing [Ollie] has to pass on to his wife and daughter! I find myself thinking of Ollie constantly. I know I must stop, but he was my best friend and he died so bravely that I cannot forget."
—Basil Beebe Elmer (letter to parents)
George Beck: August 5, 1944
What a marvellous procession, and everything made out of nothing. Each country represented and fun fair. Marvellous sight and it would do the people of England good to see it. Never seen anything like it before myself, with being on a small working party for the last three years.
—George Beck,1st Battalion The Duke of Wellington's Regiment, prisoner of war (diary)