The signalling school was two miles from...[the] monastery [of Mont des Cats], on high ground, whence in the best light Ypres was easily seen.... The professors were not perfect, I suspect, in those theories to which they drew our attention by the hour, but at any rate they were excellent operators, and useful throaty vocalists at the concert hut in the evenings. Probably the underlying cause of the numberless "schools" in the B.E.F. [British Expeditionary Force] at this time was as much the desire to give officers and men a rest as to instruct them.