There were many wooden huts, too, which were used as offices.

The road went on down the slope on the other side of the hill to La Boisselle, where it forked into two--one going to Contalmaison, the other on the left to Pozieres and finally to Bapaume.

La Boisselle stood, or rather used to stand, on the point of ground where the roads parted.

When we saw it, it was simply a mass of broken ground, which showed the ironwork round the former church, some broken tombstones, and the red dust and bricks of what had been houses.

There were still some cellars left in which men found shelter.