Cave letters, 1915-1919 / Harrie Joseph Cave - Page 785

<p>a4701786.html</p><p>3/&nbsp; their hundreds (almost).&nbsp; We cannot help but admire the coolness with which they go about their allotted tasks - spotting, photographing, escorting, or directing fire - &amp; wonder what has come over the Hun that he is so quiet, or entirely absent from the heavens.&nbsp; It&#39;s not that the elements are against flying, far from it, for the weather has been really delightful ever since we left the Front outposts in &quot;No Man&#39;s Land&quot;.&nbsp; Every one talks about the mildness for this time of the year &amp; contrasts it with that which ruled on their side of the &quot;Pond&quot; during Winter 1916-17.&nbsp; Mind you, we still get lots of shivery stuff, but Spring is nearly on us now.&nbsp; With the Field glasses I use on this job (3 of us on the anti-air-craft gun &amp; observation-Post) many interesting &amp; well known sights connected with this memorable &amp; historic sector can be clearly discerned.&nbsp; Even without them (in the sunlight) poor old once prosperous &amp; peaceful Y----s, with it&#39;s battered walls, &amp; Towers looks a pitiful picture.&nbsp; The remains of the Big Cathedral &amp; the Hall are very prominent &amp; cannot be mistaken.&nbsp; What a mess the Hun has made - gee!&nbsp; Close by it&#39;s old fashioned battlement wall (which surrounds the city) &amp; moat, is Lake&nbsp; -------, around which great deeds were done in the opening days of this most Hellish strife.&nbsp; The edge of the lake shows it&#39;s numerous scars &amp; the transformation-scene which has come over it, especially since Fritz received the &quot;order-of-the-boot&quot; from this most important heap of debris - known as Hill ----.&nbsp; The belt of country which has suffered so badly (on our side of the Line) can be</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>PTO &rarr; [in bottom left hand margin]</p>