Far off to the South, however, there was a real battle raging, and the cemeteries which we afterwards saw at Loos bore testimony to the bitter struggle which the British forces endured.
The village of Ploegsteert behind the wood was very much damaged.

Like the other villages at the front, it must at one time have been quite a prosperous place.

The church, before it was ruined, was well built and capacious.

There was a building on the main street which a (p.

111) British chaplain had used as a clubhouse, and handed over to me when his division moved south.