We passed many bodies which were still unburied, and here and there were bits of accoutrement which had been lost during the advance.

When we came up to the cross I read my son's name upon it, and knew that I had reached the object I had in view.

As the corporal who had placed (p.

157) the cross there had not been quite sure that it was actually on the place of burial, I got the runner to dig the ground in front of it.

He did so, but we discovered nothing but a large piece of a shell.