A well there was used by the men for some time, until cases of illness provoked an investigation and a dead German was discovered at the bottom.

The whole district was at all times the scene of great activity.

Men were marching to or from the line; lorries, limbers, motorcycles, ambulances and staff cars were passing or following one another on the muddy and broken way.

Along the road at various points batteries were concealed, and frequently, by a sudden burst of fire, gave one an unpleasant surprise.

If one took the turn to the right, which led to Contalmaison, one passed up a gradual rise in the ground and saw the long, dreary waste of landscape which told the story, by shell-ploughed roads and blackened woods, of the deadly presence of war.