Regardless of his rank, the dead man goes into a trench.

If so be he died in battle he is buried, booted and dressed just as he died.

And the dead of each day must be got underground before midnight of that same day--that is the hard-and- fast rule wherever the Germans are holding their ground or pressing forward.

There they will lie until the Judgment Day, unless their kinsfolk be of sufficient wealth and influence to find their burial places and dig them up and bring them home privily for interment.

Even so, it may be days or even weeks after a man is dead and buried before his people hear of it.