We heard afterwards that the country people were much impressed by the way the British Army had recognized the gallantry of a poor Belgian maidservant.
One day a German aeroplane was brought down behind our lines, near Ration Farm.

Of its two occupants one was killed.

On the aeroplane was found a Colt machine-gun, which had been taken by the Germans from the 14th Battalion several months before, in the Second Battle of Ypres.
It now came back to the brigade which had lost it.

I buried the airman near Ration Farm, in a grave, which the men did up neatly and over which they erected a cross with his name upon it.
Although our Headquarters were at Nieppe, the village was really (p.

112) in the British Area, and so we were informed towards the end of November that we had been ordered to move to St.Jans Cappel.