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10th January 2010 Sapper Arthur Halestrap, 46th Division Royal Engineers, 1898-2004 "As soon as the Armistice came into force there was a sudden, terrible silence. It was a silence that knocked one silly. It was so sudden. Straightaway we felt that we had nothing to live for. There was nothing in front of us, no objective. Everything you had been working for, for years, had suddenly disappeared. What am I going to do next? What is my future?"

6th January 2010 Lance Corporal Vic Cole, 7th Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment). 1897-1995 "We learnt to spot the snipers too. You'd put up a large turnip on the end of your bayonet with a tin hat on it, and so attract the sniper who might fire. If he did, we'd take the turnip down very carefully and take a bearing through the hole that the bullet had made, then do it again further up the trench and get a cross bearing. We didn't fire at him ourselves, rather we would ask the trench mortar people to drop one on him."

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