Our Headquarters were down in the village in a large building which was part of the convent.

General Currie and his staff lived in a charming chateau in pleasant grounds, on the hillside.

The chateau, although a modern one, was reputed (p.

113) to be haunted, which gave it a more or less romantic interest in the eyes of our men, though as far as I could hear no apparitions disturbed the slumbers of the G.S.O.or the A.A.

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The road past my house, which was a favourite walk of mine, went over the hill, and at the top a large windmill in a field commanded a fine view of the country for several miles.