Excerpt from Leaving Rouen for the Somme, Le 22me Janvier, 1917: Diary of 2nd Lt. A. E. Coles, 1st Som, L. I., 1917I distribute 5 threepenny bits to Father, Mother, Katharine, Ruth and Fritz, and keep one myself. Donald Croker produces a Half Franc which Father splits in twain, and Donald keeps one piece while I have the other.In the morning I had said good-bye to Midas and to Aunt Emily, etc.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.