For weeks at night, they had been making bridges over the trenches, so that the guns could be moved forward rapidly on the day of the attack.
I had breakfast with the O.C.of one of the batteries, a young fellow only twenty-three years of age who had left McGill to enter the war.
He was afterwards killed in front of Arras.

After breakfast I went on up the line till I came to the 3rd Artillery Brigade Headquarters, and there asked for the latest reports of progress.

They were feeling anxious because the advancing battalions had given no signal for some time, and it was thought that they might have been held up.

Someone, however looked at his watch and then at the schedule time of attack, and found that at that particular moment the men were to rest for (p.

169) ten minutes before pressing on.