Somain

An industrial town near Douai. Named October 19, 1918, in one of the diary's most emotionally direct lines about anyone other than Robertson himself: "Civilians in SOMAIN are just about delerious with joy after being freed from Hun rule." Named alongside, rather than explicitly as somewhere Robertson goes himself: the news likely reaches him through Woods, who is in the immediate area collecting pontoons at Roucourt the same day.