On top was a white altar cloth, two candles and a small crucifix.

At these services only about ten or a dozen men attended, but it was inspiring to minister to them.

I used to hear from time to time that so and so had been killed, and I knew he had made his last Communion at one of such services.

It was an evidence of the changed attitude towards religion that the men in general did not count it strange that soldiers should thus come to Holy Communion in public.

No one was ever laughed at or teased for doing so.
Neuve Eglise, at the top of the road, had been badly wrecked by German shells.