Bray-sur-Somme
Somme, France
Mentioned: 1918
Somme Sector A Somme town paired with Albert in a March 29, 1918 dinner-table rumor ("Albert has been retaken & the French also have BRAY"), reported alongside news that the line stood within 12 miles of Amiens. A different, unrelated place from Bray (Mont-Saint-Éloi), the hamlet near Vimy Robertson visited in 1917.
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1918
- 29 March 1918… rd A.T. Co’y. – They are busy. A gunner major in to dinner says that Albert has been retaken & the French also have BRAY – Sounds good as yesterday’s papers put the line within 12 miles of Amiens. – A couple me …