On this day, during the morning and afternoon, the only bad weather occurred, but the rainstorms did not in any way deter the King from carrying out the programme which he had determined on. At all the cemeteries visited in the afternoon there were striking demonstrations of affection by the country people. The smaller cemeteries were surrounded by the villagers, five or six deep, the children standing on the low walls, the King as he inspected the graves passing close to them. All maintained an attitude of sympathetic reverence. The King, who was evidently moved, showed on many occasions how he felt himself among friends and was visibly interested in the little children who stared round-eyed at "the King of the British soldiers." As the train steamed into Picquigny Station, the Bishop of Amiens was seen standing with his clergy on the platform, having come out from Amiens, specially and without interfering with the privacy of the pilgrimage, sympathetically to greet our King. The Bishop reminded His Majesty that the last time a King of England had come to Picquigny was in 1475, when Edward IV agreed there on a treaty of peace with the French King. King George V must have been interested to remember the piquant contrast between then and now, for when in 1475 Edward met Louis at Picquigny a close fence was built across a bridge "with no longer intervals than would allow the arm to pass," and the two Kings came from opposite sides to meet and confer under those precautions of mistrust. Now a British King moved among the people of France with no guard but their respect and love for him and his Army. [Illustration: ETAPLES INSPECTING SOUTH AFRICAN GRAVES] [Illustration: ETAPLES INSPECTING NEWFOUNDLAND GRAVES] [Illustration: ETAPLES THE KING READING THE LETTER FROM A BEREAVED MOTHER ASKING THE QUEEN TO PLACE A BUNCH OF FORGET-ME-NOTS ON HER SON'S GRAVE] [Illustration: ETAPLES THE KING PLACING THE FORGET-ME-NOTS ON THE GRAVE] [Illustration: ETAPLES AT THE STONE OF REMEMBRANCE] [Illustration: GENERAL VIEW OF ETAPLES THE KING AND DOMINION REPRESENTATIVES] [Illustration: ETAPLES EXAMINING PLANS OF CONSTRUCTIONAL WORK] [Illustration] [Illustration: MEERUT INDIAN CEMETERY INSPECTING INDIAN GRAVES] [Illustration: TERLINCTHUN THE LAST POST "_They lie in the keeping of a tried and generous friend, a resolute and chivalrous comrade-in-arms, who, with ready and quick sympathy has set aside for ever the soil in which they sleep, so that we ourselves and our descendants may for all time reverently tend and preserve their resting-places._"] [Illustration: TERLINCTHUN THE FRENCH GUARD OF HONOUR AT THE CROSS OF SACRIFICE] [Illustration: TERLINCTHUN THE KING PLACING A WREATH ON THE CROSS OF SACRIFICE] [Illustration: TERLINCTHUN THE SILENCE AND THE SALUTE AT THE CROSS] [Illustration: TERLINCTHUN THE KING'S ADDRESS