GRAVES AT NEUFMONTIERS
PROFFIT FARM BURNT BY THE GERMANS
In front of the graves is one of the entrances of Proffit Farm. The view opposite shows a part of the courtyard. This fine farmstead had been marked down and condemned in advance.
The Germans had themselves specially guided there from Chauconin. They looted the farmer's house: near the safe was found one of the skeleton keys with which they tried to force it.
They then fired the stables and barns, where nearly 20,000 bundles of straw made a gigantic blaze.