8/18 I gave him the best information I could. The neighbourhood had now become so safe that little huts were being run up in various places. I asked our C.R.E.to build me a church, and, to my great joy, an officer and some men were detailed to put up a little structure of corrugated iron. At one end, over the entrance door, there was a belfry in which was hung a good sized German gas bell found in the trenches on our advance. Surmounting the belfry, was a cross painted with luminous paint. |