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CHAPTER IX
WITH THE FOURTH ARMY
ON the 29th September I made a trip in the company
of Count von Eichstedt to the Httle village of Séchault,
chiefly with the object of quietly taking a few photo-
graphs of the daily life of the soldiers, such as I found it on a
comparatively peaceful day immediately behind the front.
We proceeded along a familiar road past marching columns of
all kinds, and villages and woods. Our road took us past many
fields where there was nobody to bring in the over-ripe corn,
whilst in others the sugar-beet was simply rotting away. On
reaching the above village we put up the car in a yard and
went off to look for some tempting subjects.
Of these there was no dearth and I will simply say a few words
by way of explanation. In a field of white beet we came
across the encampment of an infantry ammunition column, the
men having already put up their shelter-tents. The fore-
ground was littered with beet pulled up and thrown aside.
By the side of the road an artillery ammunition column was
resting, and its magnificent team of six horses was being
regaled with hay, whilst to complete the picture a Fussart.-
Mun. Kol. Ahteilung (s. F.H.)^ comes creaking past. From
a side-road there suddenly issues a Fuhrparkkolonne, or food
column made up of farmers’ carts. A mounted military
policeman presides over the crossing. He is making notes on
the column which is marching past. A little further on
another ammunition column has halted by the side of a barn
which looks very picturesque with its’ decrepit patched-up
walls eaten and worn away by wind and weather. We also
catch a glimpse of one of those blessed institutions, a dressing
wagon, which I have already spoken of. It is probably not
the only one. It looks as if we had chanced upon a spot where
1 Foot artillery ammunition column detachment for heavy field howitzers.
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