Peace! Thank God for that! It feels very queer too, as if your elastic had snapped.... Evidently the folk everywhere had heard the news and French girls were embracing Tommies, and French children blew kisses to us as we passed. French soldiers waved ecstatically, and looked as if for two pins, or if we were not going so fast, they would climb aboard and kiss us…. [T]he whole place had gone stark mad, with flags of all nations flying everywhere and sirens blowing. All the bands turned out and processed along the camp, with convalescent patients and oddments of French following.