To rotate the image, hold down SHIFT and ALT on your keyboard, and then click and drag on the page.
March 1. 1919
Brest
Rain. got posters & maps. ink. pens. pencils
for hut. spent morning. beautiful afternoon.
at canteen. lobster at new place. many officers
interesting conversation. E. T. came to bid us
good-bye. sails tomorrow. Watson & Prior came.
March 2. 1919 Sunday
Cloudy. Miss R. & Mary & I started out for a walk.
took car out in country. passed many quaint cottages
peasants. old men tending sheeps & goats. old women
washing in streams & pools. rubbing clothes on stones
as many as 60 around one pool & many more along
the stream - fields lovely - sun out & found several flowers
hedges of holly & mistletoe - came to a little old chapel
build in 1615. St Anne. floor stones worn by kneeling.
One small room about 30 shares. helmets. many gaps
& ribbons. hearts (gold) all piled on tiny alter (altar) to
express thanks for safety in war. many crutches
that had been discarded. people being healed there.