[The Great War As I Saw It by Frederick George Scott]@TWC D-Link bookThe Great War As I Saw It CHAPTER XIV 12/19
No one I spoke to, however, could tell me the exact map location of the place where it stood.
I looked over the trenches, and on all sides spread a waste of brown mud, made more desolate by the morning mist which clung over everything.
I was determined, however, not to be baffled in my search, and told the runner who was with me that, if I stayed there six months, I was not going to leave till I had found that grave.
We walked back along the communication trench and turned into one on the right, peering over the top every now and then to see if we could recognize anything corresponding to the marks on our map. Suddenly the runner, who was looking over the top, pointed far away to a lonely white cross that stood at a point where the ground sloped down through the mist towards Regina Trench.
At once we climbed out of the trench and made our way over the slippery ground and past the deep shell holes to where the white cross stood out in the solitude.
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