forty-seven other ranks killed; one hundred and fifty-eight wounded, and ten missing among the horrors of the swampy pitted ground. The list runs:
Capt. the Hon. P. J. Ogilvy }
Capt. R. J. P. Rodakowski }
2nd Lieut. A. L. Wells } killed October 9.
2nd Lieut. T. S. V. Stoney }
2nd Lieut. H. V. Fanshawe died 11th October of
wounds received on
the 9th.
Capt. R. B. S. Reford }
Lieut. N. B. Bagenal }
Lieut. D. S. Browne } wounded October 9th.
2nd Lieut. E. M. Harvey }
2nd Lieut. T. Corry }
Capt. P. R. Woodhouse }
Lieut. H. H. Maxwell } wounded October 10th.
2nd Lieut. E. H. Dowler }
It took them eight hours along the taped tracks and the duck-boards to get to Rugby Camp behind Boesinghe, where they stayed for the next two days and drew a couple of officers and a hundred men from the Divisional Reinforcement Battalion to replace some of their casualties.
On the 13th October they, with their Brigade, took over the support line on the old battle-front from various units of the 2nd and 3rd Guards Brigade. The 2nd Grenadiers relieved the 1st Grenadiers in the front line on the right and the 2nd Coldstream the Welsh Guards on the left sector. The Battalion itself was scattered by companies and half-companies near Koekuit-Louvois farm, Craonne farm, and elsewhere, relieving companies and half-companies of the other battalions, and standing by to attend smartly to the needs of the forward battalions in case of sudden calls for more bombs, small-arm ammunition, and lights. They were instructed, too, to be ready to support either flank should the troops there give way. But the troops
