Personally I had another large whisky-and-soda, and slept like a log.
The next morning the General's A.D.C.motored me to a village about four kilometres off and handed me over to a 2nd Lieutenant, who walked me off to Brigade H.Q.These were behind an old railway embankment.
Everyone was most kind, but I saw no quiet place to work.

Everyone was rushing about, and the noise of the guns was terrific.

The young 2nd Lieutenant advised me to take the men I wanted to draw and to go to the other side of the embankment.

He said that there was no one there and that I could work in peace, and he was right.

The noise from our batteries immediately gave me a bad headache, but apparently the Boche did not respond at all till the afternoon.