Lieut.-Colonel G. F. Trotter, M.V.O., D.S.O., Commanding Officer. Major C. R. C. de Crespigny, Second in Command. Lieut. E. H. Duberly, Adjutant. 2nd Lieut. P. K. Stephenson, Machine-gun Officer. Capt. M. E. Makgill-Crichton-Maitland, King's Company. Lieutenant Sir A. L. M. Napier, Bt., King's Company. Lieutenant Lord Stanley, King's Company. 2nd Lieut. G. J. T. H. Villiers, King's Company. 2nd Lieut. A. G. Bonham-Carter, King's Company. Capt. F. L. V. Swaine, No. 2 Company. Lieut. R. P. le P. Trench, No. 2 Company. 2nd Lieut. F. E. H. Paget, No. 2 Company. 2nd Lieut. C. Leeke, No. 2 Company. 2nd Lieutenant the Hon. I. A. Charteris, No. 2 Company. Major W. E. Nicol, D.S.O., No. 3 Company. Lieut. O. Wakeman, No. 3 Company. 2nd Lieut. E. Heneage, No. 3 Company. Capt. W. S. Pilcher, No. 4 Company. Lieutenant Viscount Lascelles, No. 4 Company. Lieutenant the Earl of Dalkeith, No. 4 Company. Lieut. A. A. Moller, No. 4 Company. Capt. G. Petit, R.A.M.C., Medical Officer. [Sidenote: Sept. 26-27.] The 1st Battalion reached Vermelles on the Sunday with the rest of the 3rd Guards Brigade. On Monday it advanced towards Loos, and was placed in reserve, which meant being heavily shelled, without taking any active part in the fighting. It received orders to occupy the old German second-line trench on the outskirts of Loos, and Lieut.-Colonel G. Trotter left it there under Major de Crespigny while he went forward to Brigade Headquarters. The advance of the 3rd Guards Brigade into Loos under heavy shell-fire already referred to was described afterwards by a General as one of the most splendid and inspiring sights he had ever seen. Major de Crespigny led the 1st Battalion to an old German trench just outside Loos, and ordered the men to put on gas helmets. Lieut.-Colonel Trotter, having been told to keep his battalion well under cover and to wait for further orders, returned to find that they had already carried out these instructions. The attack by the 4th Battalion Grenadiers and Welsh Guards started, but when General Heyworth found they could not capture and hold Hill 70 he decided to take up a line a little short of the crest of the hill and not to throw in the reserves. The 1st Battalion Grenadiers therefore remained just outside Loos, and in the evening sent up digging parties to assist the Royal Engineers. [Sidenote: Sept. 28.]