Attack on Fontaine, November 27, 1917 306 Attack on Gonnelieu and Gauche Wood, December 1, 1917 332 CHAPTER XVIII JANUARY TO SEPTEMBER 1916 THE 3RD BATTALION [Sidenote: 3rd Batt. Jan. 1916.] At the beginning of 1916 the officers of the 3rd Battalion were: Colonel N. A. L. Corry, D.S.O. Commanding Officer. Maj. M. E. Makgill-Crichton-Maitland Second in Command. Capt. O. Lyttelton Adjutant. Lieut. E. H. J. Wynne Transport. 2nd Lieut. L. St. L. Hermon-Hodge Bombing Officer. Hon. Lieut. G. H. Wall Quartermaster. Capt. R. Wolrige-Gordon No. 1 Company. Lieut. the Hon. H. E. Eaton ” ” Lieut. G. P. Bowes-Lyon ” ” Capt. the Hon. R. P. Stanhope No. 2 Company. 2nd Lieut. E. R. M. Fryer ” ” 2nd Lieut. J. F. Worsley ” ” 2nd Lieut. W. Parker ” ” Capt. G. G. Gunnis No. 3 Company. Lieut. the Hon. F. O. H. Eaton ” ” Lieut. F. J. V. B. Hopley ” ” Capt. E. N. E. M. Vaughan No. 4 Company. Lieut. the Hon. A. E. F. Yorke ” ” Lieut. R. Asquith ” ” 2nd Lieut. R. W. Parker ” ” Lieut. A. T. Logan, R.A.M.C. Medical Officer. On the 1st the 3rd Battalion marched from Merville to Laventie, and went into billets vacated by the 2nd Battalion Scots Guards. On the 3rd it took over the left sector from the 1st Battalion Scots Guards, with the Battalion Headquarters at Wangeric Farm. Forty-eight hours in the trenches followed by forty-eight hours’ rest was the regular routine for the next fortnight. The trenches in this sector were in a very good state, and it was possible, therefore, to go in for refinements and erect splinter-proof shelters; but the enemy’s artillery was very active, and expended a great deal of ammunition on the reserve trenches and communications. During this fortnight a troop of Wiltshire Yeomanry was attached to the Battalion for instruction, and did very well although it was quite new to trench warfare. On the 12th Colonel Corry relinquished command of the Battalion, and on the 14th Lieut.-Colonel Jeffreys took charge of it temporarily, pending the arrival of Major Sergison-Brooke.