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In a ruined cellar in the village of Zillebeck, a mile and a half further in, the R. A. P. was established and there carried on during the desperate fighting of the next three days. Through this post a continuous stream of wounded passed, the stretcher cases all night, the walking cases all day and all night. In spite of its scenes of horror and suffering the R. A. P. was a cheery spot.
He dodged the shelling at the crossroads, and following a track across the open fields, arrived at the Zillebeck Bund without adventure. Here to his relief he found the battalion. He made his way at once to Headquarters, and walked in upon a meeting of officers. "Well, I'm " exclaimed Colonel Leighton, checking himself hard, "who have we here! What in hell are you doing here, Pilot?
You would be an embarrassment to the officers. That reminds me, there was a call from Menin Mill for you this afternoon. They are having an awful rush there. Our own R. A. P. will be in Zillebeck Village, and our Headquarters will be there." "I'll go there, sir, if you agree," said Barry, and after some discussion the matter was so arranged.
"Oh, that's all right, sir," said Monroe, hastily, "but I guess we'll have to hurry." "I remember, Monroe, that your major and you would have sent me out of this, but you know well enough that there's only one place for me to-night, and the question is, where is the battalion Ypres Barracks, Chateau Beige, Zillebeck, or where?"
In the sorely tortured graveyard, beside the little shell-wrecked Zillebeck church, in a hole made by an enemy shell, they laid McCuaig a fitting resting place for one who had lived his days in the free wild spaces of the Canadian west, a fitting tomb for as gallant a soldier as Canada ever sent forth to war to make the world free. That night the battalion was relieved.
Does any one want to ask a question? Well, then, it's pretty simple after all. Two companies advance as far as Maple Copse, and gradually work up until they feel the enemy, then put in a block and hold against attack, at all costs. The other two companies are to follow up in support at Zillebeck Village.
"I enquired at the transports, sir," said Monroe, "and no one appeared to know. They moved out quietly and left no word behind." "All right, we'll go up to Chateau Belge, and if they are not there, we'll make a shot at Zillebeck," said Barry. "We'll go right away. We don't need a lot of truck this trip."
I say a cemetery should be somewhere out of sight, like Maple Copse; now, there's a good place, except that the roots make it hard diggin'. Up against a railway bank like that down at Zillebeck, by the Railway Dugouts, there's a lovely place." "How would the Ramparts do, sergeant?" enquired another transport lad. "Ramparts? You mean at Ypres?
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