Just behind it was an orchard, and in it there were two batteries of British Artillery, which were attached to our Division.

I was going up to the trenches that afternoon, so I gave the horse some oats and tied him to a tree near the officers' billet.

I then went up over the hill down to Ration Farm, and from thence into the line.

It was quite late in the afternoon, but walking through the trenches was easy when it was not raining.

I was returning about 10 o'clock, when the second in command of the 16th Battalion asked me to wait for him and we would come out together over the open.