So ended the containing attack from the Ypres salient. But is not every sentence a spur to the imagination?
Two days later, the Corps commander, in personally thanking the battalion, complimented it on 'the smart appearance of the men who showed no signs of what they had gone through.'
It was to this famous battalion of a great Regiment that I was now attached as one of the four Presbyterian chaplains to the 'fighting Third' Division.