It was a magnificent achievement." Our burial parties were hard at work collecting the bodies of those who had fallen, and the chaplains were with them.

I met some of the battalions, who, having done their part in the fighting, were coming back.

Many of them had suffered heavily and the mingled feelings (p.

170) of loss and gain chastened their exaltation and tempered their sorrow.
I made my way over to the ruins of the village of Thelus on our left, and there I had my lunch in a shell hole with some men, who were laughing over an incident of the attack.

So sudden had been our advance that a German artillery officer who had a comfortable dugout in Thelus, had to run away before he was dressed.