tracks and rides, and each morning soon after dawn the more energetic
could be seen cantering under the dripping trees in the early morning
May mists--bare headed and in shirt sleeves.

Meanwhile the arrival of some new officers filled the gaps in the Mess
caused by Vimy. First Colonel Jones returned, with the piece of shrapnel
still in his hand, but otherwise very fit. Soon afterwards two new
officers, 2nd Lieutenants H.A. Lowe and G.E. Banwell, joined us, and at
the same time Capt. R.C. L. Mould and Lieut. D.B. Fetch returned from
England. Several large drafts of N.C.O.'s and men arrived, many of them
old hands, who had been wounded, some of them more than once, although
as we know well there were many soldiers in England who had never yet
seen a day's fighting.

Just at this time another important change was made in our training. For
many months now we had been taught the bomb to the exclusion of almost
every other weapon, now at last the bayonet was returning to its former
position of importance. The great exponent of the art of bayonet
fighting was a Major Campbell, of the Army Gymnastic Staff, whose
lectures were already well known at the Army Schools, and who was now
sent round the country to talk to all Battalions. He had devised an
entirely new scheme of bayonet instruction on very simple yet practical
lines, doing away with many of the old drill-book "points and parries,"
and training arm and rifle to act with the eye, not on a word of
command. His powers as a lecturer were as great as his keenness for his
subject, and for two hours he held the attention of a hall full of all
ranks, speaking so vividly that not one of us but came away feeling that
we were good enough to fight six Boche, given a bayonet. He was
particularly insistent on not driving the bayonet home too far, and we
shall always remember his "throat two inches is enough, kidneys only