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. J. Duberly, Adjutant. Lieut. P. K. Stephenson, Machine Gun Section. Lieut. the Earl of Dalkeith, Bombing Officer. Lieut. Lord Stanley, Transport Officer. Lieut. J. Teece, Quartermaster. Capt. M. E. Makgill-Crichton-Maitland, King's Company. 2nd Lieut. F. 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 Lieut. the Hon. I. A. Charteris, No. 2 Company. Capt. C. H. Greville, No. 3 Company. Lieut. O. Wakeman, No. 3 Company. 2nd Lieut. E. Heneage, No. 3 Company. Capt. W. S. Pilcher, No. 4 Company. Lieut. Viscount Lascelles, No. 4 Company. 2nd Lieut. A. A. Moller, No. 4 Company. Capt. G. Petit, R.A.M.C., Medical Officer. During October the 1st Battalion remained either in or just behind the trenches until the 26th. The casualties in the other battalions necessitated a certain redistribution of the officers, and Captain R. Wolrige-Gordon, who had returned from sick leave, was transferred to the 3rd Battalion, while Captain Greville and Second Lieutenant F. G. Bonham-Carter went to the 4th Battalion. On October 3 the 1st Battalion relieved the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry in the trenches, and came in for a good deal of shelling, during which it had twenty-six casualties. On the 6th it was relieved by the 6th Buffs, and went into billets at Vermelles, where it lived in cellars. From Vermelles to the trenches was a march of one and a half hours through communication trenches practically the whole way, and fatigue parties sometimes amounting to over 150 men were constantly sent up to the front line. Lieutenant O. Wakeman and Lieutenant Lord Lascelles were recommended for the rank of temporary Captain on account of their gallant conduct, and the efficient manner in which they handled their platoons under fire. On the 7th Second Lieutenant R. W. Phillipps and a draft of 50 men arrived, and on the 9th Second Lieutenant F. C. St. Aubyn and Second Lieutenant H. Alexander joined the Battalion. On the 14th the Battalion moved up into the trenches near the Hohenzollern Redoubt and occupied the front line south-east of "Big Willie," the name given by the men to the largest of the two German trenches connecting the Hohenzollern Redoubt with the main line of the German trenches. [Sidenote: Oct. 17.]