eans of a ramp already prepared and
carefully camouflaged at a point where it passed through our lines. If
all went according to expectations we were to follow a line due east,
and, passing to the north of Havrincourt, take up a position, already
known to us, on the railway cutting south of Flesquieres, although as
yet it was in enemy possession.

The great battle opened on the morning of the 27th inst., under
excellent conditions, and it is now known to everyone how the crossing
of the canal was effected by means of scaling ladders, and, in some
instances, by the use of life-belts.

From first to last the day went smoothly and well, and by (p. 088)
nightfall the great Hindenburg Line, upon which the enemy depended so
much and in which he had such faith, was everywhere behind us, and we
were through, at last, to open country beyond!

It only remained for the Allies' great Commander-in-Chief to deliver
the final knock-out blow at his own time and discretion.

At this time the writer was reluctantly forced to leave the Battery on
account of ill health, and was sent home, and it is a source of keen
regret to him that on that account he missed the closing weeks of the
great campaign.

It is now a matter of history how our Armies, after hot and incessant
fighting, swept the enemy divisions out of France.

On Armistice Day, the Division was in possession of Maubeuge, and thus
the Guards found themselves on territory which they had occupied in
the early days of the War, prior to the retreat from Mons.

After three and a half years of strenuous warfare, the Battery is now
lying at rest in Cologne, where it keeps its silent "Watch on the
Rhine."

THE END.

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