166) Ecoivres, as everyone was so busy, so I rode over to Anzin and had service for the 7th Siege Battery in an empty Nissen hut.

Most of the men of the battery were present, and I had forty communicants.

The place was lit by candles which every now and then were extinguished by the firing of the fifteen-inch gun nearby.

Easter Day was originally intended to be the day for our attack, but it had been postponed till Monday.

We could not do much in the way of observing the great feast.
Every room and shed in the town was filled, and men were lying out under rubber sheets in the fields.