sector having come down from the Flanders Battle & were being reorganized. Our trenches were the best I have seen & fairly well wired. We are now in the 3rd Corps commanded by General Pulteney, the Army Commander being Sir Julian Byng who now holds about 40 miles of front. On our left the 36th Division (Nugent ) & on our right the 55th (Jeudwine ). Divisional headquarters in a hutted camp at SOREL perched on top of a hill & exposed to every wind but no doubt very healthy. The Royal Engineers built me a small brick house with bricks from the ruined villages. I had two rooms & was as I thought fairly settled in for the winter. About the November 1917beginning of November at a Corps Conference we were informed that it was intended