new C.O., a Col. Williams of the Middlesex, the plump, red faced hale fellow well met type, a man who can easily put away a bottle a day without turning a hair! I should think he is a very good soldier; time will show. We have finished one tour of duty in the front line trenches and are at present holding half a dozen small forts with keeps just behind, with orders to hang on to the last man in case of attack - not that there's any possibility of that, the Bosch has got his tail too far down to do anything rash!