Hornoy-le-Bourg
Somme, France
Mentioned: 1918
Transit / Journey A small town in the Somme, between Amiens and Abbeville. Reached in the rain the evening of August 5, 1918, with no lines or billets ready: the unit parks in the street overnight before staging on to Vers the next day.
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1918
- 5 August 1918… ined at VIEUX ROUEN at noon – waited for orders. – The arrived about 4.00 P.M. & we set out in the rain for HORNOY – No lines or billets. – Just to park in the street overnight. Fanquembug found a good bi …
- 6 August 1918Rain HORNOY – VERS Messing about all morning awaiting orders. – They want us to do a 44 km trek to BO …