039) since been destroyed and its church ruined.

Many of us have pleasant memories of the town, and the cemetery there is the resting place of numbers of brave Canadians.
I ran across an imperial Chaplain there, whom I had met in England.

He told me he had a sad duty to perform that night.

It was to prepare for death three men who were to be shot at daybreak.

He felt it very keenly, and I afterwards found from experience how bitter the duty was.
We were brought to Armentieres in order to be put into the trenches with some of the British units for instruction.