Avion
Pas-de-Calais, France
Mentioned: 1917
Vimy / Artois Sector A town just south of Lens captured by the 3rd and 4th Canadian Divisions between June 26 and 29, 1917: see the "La Coulotte and the Advance on Avion" context panel for that stretch of the diary.
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1917
- 29 June 1917… one. – Intermittent strafing going on all the time up forward. – The line was advanced to somewhere around AVION. Got fed up about tea-time & wandered over to look up Scott Browne at the C.M.M.G. Bde. b …