us, and not content with `strafing`

us there, he would shell our dug-

outs while we were resting in the daytime. I was at Ypres and Poperinghe two or three times and the first place is pretty well de- molished and the latter placed has been shelled quite a lot, at Dickebusch there`s only a few houses standing but they are all knocked `galler west`and crooked. St Elori is flat now and grass growing over it. We came out from thee and had a week or ten days march (called it a rest) well we did rest at St Omar for four days) and then to the Somme.We went int camp just in front of La Boiselle wood about a mile and a half from Contal maison five miles back from Fritz`s front line, had to do all our work at night and walk to our trenches about four and a half miles from line, had to do all our little bit I suppose you have heard that we were made into a Pioneer and attached to the 4th Division Canadians.