[19] I do not say this paragraph is true. It is what I thought on 15th October 1914. The weather was depressing.
[20] Optimist!
[21] After nine months at the Front—six and a half months as a despatch rider and two and a half months as a cyclist officer—I have decided that the English language has no superlative sufficient to describe our infantry.
[22] Here are kindly people.
[23] French, Flemish, and German slang expression. Done for!
[24] An abbreviation for the general in command of the Divisional Artillery.
[25] The soldier's contemptuous expression for the inhabitants of the civilian world.
[26] I retired with some haste from Flanders the night after the Germans first began to use gas. Militant chemistry may have altered the British soldier's convictions.
[27] I have left out the usual monotonous epithet. Any soldier can supply it.
[28] To these may now be added—St Eloi, Hill 60, the Second Battle of Ypres.