You couldn't see anything

5:30 in the morning was our jump off. Honest to goodness you couldn’t see anything for a few minutes. It was snow. I think just about the time the first gun fired was about when the snow started. The guns were wheel to wheel for miles. The whole front was approximately 14 miles. Actually our part was only four but then you see we had the 51st hound division to our right again and there was other. Actually, when you come to think of it, we got all the glory for Vimy. We were only a small part of it. Four miles roughly is approximately the extent of our front line. There was snow coming from the west, you see, blowing towards east where the Germans were facing the west, you see. Well it may have had some effect on it. I know when the snow storm let up our machine gunners had a field day because the Germans were running, had left the front, would pour out of their dugouts and started going down towards Givenchy. There was a draw down through the, you know, like a drainage system. You’d call it a ravine here, but it wasn’t very deep and that’s where they were taking shelter and (burying down through this) and their dugouts were dug in from the sides of this little bit of a draw. I don’t know what you’d call it. And they were running down towards Givenchy. My God, one of our machine gunners come up there. Must have sprayed 25- 30 of them. Just sprayed it you know.