I could get leave now for a few days just to see you. I am very fit & going strong & ready for another go. Good bye my own darling; I am sure you will be pleased. All my love dearest Your [illegible] Bill] [Insert: manuscript notes on reverse of typescript 'SECRET: programme 19 August 1916' re experimental demonstrations 1.About a dozen oil cans were fired at one time from the ordinary oil drum fixed into the ground. Some of the oil cans were not exploded & did not therefore burn. This will be useful before an attack no doubt but the range is too short. The arrangement of the oil cans is quite simple & will not mean much labour either in fixing them or carrying them up. 2.The difference as far as one could see was very small 3.This threw a thick flame accompanied by dense smoke about 40 yards. The men working it stood with the flamenwerfer behind a small sandbag wall & operated from there. The lighting of the charge seemed to take a little time & would certainly give it away. The heat from the flames was intense but I think the danger is more [illegible] than real: I think it quite possible that the flame would pass over you if you were lying down in the bottom of the trench 4.Very cumbersome and most difficult to carry up to the trenches, but a very powerful aid to an attack. The flame seemed to go very high & I doubt if it would do much harm to anyone lying in the trenches except from the effects of heat 5.Quite a successful effort: the gas cylinder was propelled about 200 yards from a pipe but also the [illegible] about 5 feet. It is simpler than the gas emplacements in trenches but there is no certainty that it would always explode. This method might be useful if a wind for gas from the trenches was not quite suitable 6.Range bad & bomb has not the same effect as 2 inch T.L ]