We had fair weather lately but yesterday it broke it poured of rain and we were about up neck in mud again it’s a terror it makes us tired out hardly lift our feet up. We had some experience at dodging minny werfers this time. I think they are the most deadly shells I have seen. We had warning by the Hoods that were there they had two blown to pieces the day before and that were the place we had to be, they happened to be inside a bivvy. You can see them coming in the air and we had to scuffle if they were coming toward us, the hole they made would bury a horse and cart.

At the end of the war, the British government sent Arthur Woolston’s wife a large bronze medal inscribed with the words, “He died to save civilization.” His letters home show no such grandiose delusions.