What a feast it was! Under the direction of George Young, himself a highly skilled cook, the other cuisine artists and K. P.'s had labored early and late, and at two o'clock were ready to serve the following menu:

Vegetable soup

Roast turkey     

Baked potatoes               

Brussels sprouts

Cranberry sauce

Bread and jam  

Raisin pie            

Apple pie

Beer     

Hot Chocolate

Nuts     

Apples  Candy

                No imposing bill-of-fare for a camp in the States, perhaps, but to prepare that dinner in a small French town, with limited facilities, was no light undertaking. High credit is due to George Young and his apostles for the great effort they made that the "boys" might enjoy their Thanksgiving day as nearly as possible as they did in the States.

                Life flowed along smoothly enough in the days following Thanksgiving. There was a dearth of rumors, and the few that did come in were good. The morale of the whole Regiment was on a higher level than it had been for a long time. The only items of interest in this period were the departure of a dozen men on furloughs and the first appearance of the official divisional insignia, the dark blue YD on the OD diamond.

                Finally, orders came to move, not forward, but toward the front again. Despite the reassuring words of the Colonel, a cold horror gripped everyone, until it was discovered the move was only some six kilo­ meters to the town of Gery, through which we passed

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