Trp Arthur Rouget (Wandin), 13^th Light Horse Regiment: From his diary (France) –‘We go north to Abecele. While here they decide that they will build stables for the horses for the winter with brick floors, so a party of us were detailed to proceed to Ypres to pick up the best bricks from among the ruins and load the wagons when they come up at night. We do a bit of souvenir hunting in our spare time among the ruins. It took us about ten days before we had enough bricks. When we had, we went back to our camp and got to work laying, there happened to be one tradesman among our lot so he was foreman. We got on very well and it did not take us long to lay enough bricks to accommodate one hundred and thirty horses. The funny part was we were just finished when we had to pack up and go down on the Somme again’.