It had been used as a billet by some of our men.

The sentry I had been talking to had disappeared and all they could find of him were his boots with his feet in them.

In the building opposite, we found a Highlander badly wounded and I got stretcher-bearers to come and carry him off to the 2nd Field Ambulance in the Square nearby.

Their headquarters had been moved to Vlamertinghe and they were evacuating that morning.

The civilians now had got out of the town.