I was not sorry therefore when my week's leave was over and I went back to the line.

A staff officer whom I met on the leave boat informed me that the Division had changed its trenches, and my Brigade had left Bethune.

We had a most wonderful run in the staff car from Boulogne, and in two hours arrived at the Brigade Headquarters at Steenje, near Bailleul.

There, with my haversacks, I was left by the staff car at midnight and had to find a lodging place.

The only light I saw was in the upper windows of the Cure's house, the rest of the village was in complete darkness.