and then rode to the ridge where the Communication Trenches lead up to the Fire trenches – an officer of the tunnelling company took us round – there was very little to see & our craters round Hooge & St Eloi were quite as large, but both sides had been mining along nearly the whole front – 500 yards there were craters. The Germans were trying to get us off the Ridge by means of these progressive craters & it was the task of the tunnelling company to blow up the German mines before they could get ours. The trenches themselves were very bad & not so good as ours – badly traversed & very little rivetted during the time we were there we did not hear a rifle or gun fired. The trenches are much lighter held than we