A typical French kitchen stove, with Hortense Delacroix. Here I took my cafe au lait each morning before going 'down line'. Annotated on back of picture - Hortense Delacroix, the daughter of the farmer where we were billeted at Sailly-sur-la Lys, Summer 1915. By Lieutenant Major John Empson Tindall, MC (b.1885). He joined the Royal Engineers as a Lieutenant and rose to the rank of Captain in the 1st Home Counties Field Company, Royal Engineers (later the 490th Field Company, Royal Engineers), 8th Division, BEF and then became Major commanding the 505th (Wessex) Field Company, 57th Division, BEF.