A brigade can therefore hold about 2000 yards of trenches: two battalions in front line trenches, one battalion in reserve, and three battalions in rest billets.
These should be practiced in the intervals of trench service when the battalion is in rest billets.
Once while we were in rest billets an Irish Hussar regiment camped in an open field opposite our billet.
I thought we were going to ride back to rest billets, but soon found out that the only time an infantry man rides is when he is wounded and is bound for the base or Blighty.
After about two weeks at school they returned to their units in rest billets or in the fire trench as the case might be and got busy teaching their platoons how to make "jam tins.
For sixteen days we remained in rest billets, digging roads, drilling, and other fatigues, and then back into the front-line trench.
In our twenty-four hours at rest billets we had lots of fun.
Some of the companies of the 28th lost heavily--I think we were the luckiest; but when the battalion went back to rest billets a lot of boys' faces were missing that we had been familiar with for months.
I am of course travelling light and have to carry everything in my 'pack' until I get back to my valise and 'rest billets,' so I sleep in my clothes.
Out in 'Rest Billets,' I am glad to say, it is no longer necessary.
At first the small towns, the villages, and the many farmhouses and cottages within easy reach of the firing line provided all the rest billets.
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