Shells were falling in the fields on both sides of us.

The great red sunset glowed in the west and the trees overhead cast an artistic gray green light upon the scene.

The men were facing the sunset, and I told them as usual that there lay Canada.

The last hymn was "Abide with Me", and the words, "Hold Thou Thy Cross before my closing eyes", were peculiarly touching in view of the fact that the working party was to start as soon as the service was ended.

At Festubert our Cavalry Brigade, now deprived of their horses, joined us, and I remember one morning seeing Colonel, now General, Macdonell, coming out of the line at the head of his men.