The greatest care was taken in collecting the dead and making their last resting place as neat and comely as possible.

A plank road was constructed to connect the Bethune-Arras road with the Lens-Arras road further forward.

It lay in a straight line over the broken ground cut up by trenches and huge craters, and brought one to the headquarters of the siege battery in which my son was a gunner.

On all sides stretched the plain which our men had won.

Far off, on clear days, one could see in the distance the little hamlets behind the German lines.
We had taken the Ridge, but there were villages in the plain which were not yet in our hands.