[41] One battalion, or at least one company of it, spent the first Christmas after the Armistice in building a camp for itself, although there were several pleasant villages in the neighbourhood.

[Transcriber's Notes]

Punctuation and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in this book; otherwise they were not changed.

Simple typographical errors were corrected.

Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained.

Page [90]: "workshops" was misprinted as "workships".

Page [216]: "A little later" was misprinted as "latter".

Page [267]: "sections-commanders" was printed that way.