Two of our men had gone down into the dugout and there they found the water in the wash-basin still warm and many things scattered about in confusion.
They took possession of everything that might be of use including some German war maps, and were just trying to get a very fine telephone when two other of our men hearing voices in the dugout and thinking the enemy might still be there, threw down a smoke bomb which set fire to the place.

The invaders had to relinquish their pursuit of the telephone and beat a hasty retreat.

Smoke was still rising from the dugout when I saw it and continued to do so for a day or two.
Our signallers were following up the infantry and laying wires over the open.

Everyone was in high spirits.

By this time the retreating Germans had got well beyond the crest of the Ridge and across the valley.