Beyond this there was another line of sandbag homes on one side of a large pond called "Zillebeke Lake." They were used by other divisions.
From Railway Dugouts, by paths and then by communication trenches, one made one's way up to Hill 60 and the other parts of the front line, where the remains of a railway crossed the hill.

Our dugouts were on the east side of it, and the line itself was called "Lover's Lane".
The brick arch of a bridge which crossed the line was part of our front.
One day I was asked by a British chaplain, who was ordered south, to accompany him on a trip he was making to his brother's grave at Hooge.
He wished to mark it by a cross.

As the place was in full view of the Germans, we had to visit it before dawn.

I met my friend at 2.30 a.m.
in the large dugout under the Ramparts at Ypres.

We started off with two runners, but one managed most conveniently to lose us and (p.