I wish to express to the 3rd Battalion Grenadier Guards my appreciation and admiration at their steady advance under very deadly fire to the attack on September 27. Lord Cavan, commanding the Guards Division, a former Grenadier Guardsman, has expressed to me the sincere pride with which he watched his old regiment advance to the assault. J. PONSONBY, Brigadier-General, Commanding the 2nd Guards Brigade. The 4th Battalion. [Sidenote: Sept. 26.] The 3rd Guards Brigade, under Brigadier-General Heyworth, marched _via_ Lambres, Lières, and Marles-les-Mines to Haillicourt, where it arrived on Sunday morning the 26th. At Marles-les-Mines it had to halt for six hours to allow a cavalry corps to pass, and as the men never knew when their turn would come to advance, they had to sit down on a muddy road and wait. The battalions were crowded into billets for a short time at Haillicourt, where the violent bombardment of the French attack at Souchez could be distinctly heard. In the afternoon the Brigade moved off, and marched to Vermelles, where it remained for the night. The officers of the 4th Battalion Grenadier Guards were: Lieut.-Colonel G. C. Hamilton, D.S.O., Commanding Officer. Major the Hon. C. M. B. Ponsonby, M.V.O., Second in Command. Capt. T. F. J. N. Thorne, Adjutant. Lieut. M. G. Williams, Machine-gun Officer. Lieut. C. E. M. Ellison, Machine-gun Officer. 2nd Lieut. E. Ludlow, Quartermaster. Capt. J. A. Morrison, No. 1 Company. Lieut. G. E. Shelley, No. 1 Company. 2nd Lieut. G. A. Ponsonby, No. 1 Company. Captain Sir G. Houstoun-Boswall, Bart., No. 2 Company. Lieut. E. F. Penn, No. 2 Company. Lieut. P. Malcolm, No. 2 Company. Capt. E. D. Ridley, No. 3 Company. 2nd Lieut. M. A. T. Ridley, No. 3 Company. 2nd Lieut. A. H. Tompson, No. 3 Company. Capt. H. L. Aubrey Fletcher, M.V.O., No. 4 Company. Lieut. E. R. D. Hoare, No. 4 Company. 2nd Lieut. B. C. Layton, No. 4 Company. 2nd Lieut. M. H. Macmillan, No. 4 Company. Lieut. E. Brunton, R.A.M.C., Medical Officer. Lieutenant Blundell, Lieutenant Britten, Lieutenant R. Leigh Pemberton, and Lieutenant Tennant were left at Vermelles with the transport. On the 27th Brigadier-General Heyworth received orders to attack Hill 70. The movements of the 3rd Guards Brigade more or less depended on the success of the 2nd Brigade. Originally it had been decided not to go through Loos, but to leave it on the right and to rendezvous close in rear of the Loos--Hulluch road, but these orders were afterwards cancelled.