Lieut.-Colonel A. F. A. N. Thorne, D.S.O. Commanding Battalion. Capt. the Hon. A. G. Agar-Robartes, M.C. Adjutant. Lieut. E. W. Seymour Assistant Adjutant. Lieut. E. G. A. Fitzgerald Intelligence Officer. Capt. R. W. Parker No. 1 Company. 2nd Lieut. E. D. Tate ” ” 2nd Lieut. P. J. M. Ellison ” ” Capt. L. Holbech No. 2 Company. Lieut. G. A. I. Dury ” ” 2nd Lieut. W. A. Pembroke ” ” Lieut. G. F. Pauling, M.C. No. 3 Company. Lieut. A. C. Knollys, M.C. ” ” Lieut. E. N. de Geijer ” ” 2nd Lieut. P. Durbin ” ” Capt. C. W. Carrington, D.S.O. No. 4 Company. Lieut. W. G. Orriss ” ” 2nd Lieut. N. C. Bennett ” ” 2nd Lieut. R. Van T. Ranney ” ” Lieutenant H. C. Fish, U.S.R. Medical Officer. At 3 A.M. on the 23rd Lieut.-Colonel Thorne received verbal orders to bring up the Battalion at once, and to relieve the remnants of the 93rd Brigade in the line, but on reaching Boyelles he found that this Brigade had only just taken over the line and required no relief. He therefore withdrew the front companies, Nos. 1 and 4, and placed them in the support trenches, occupied by the West Yorkshire Regiment, which consequently had to retire into reserve. This manœuvre was carried out under heavy shelling, during which Lieutenant Seymour was wounded. That evening No. 2 Company under Captain Holbech and No. 3 under Lieutenant Pauling went up into the front trenches, the remainder of the Battalion being in support. The next day these two companies moved back from the railway cutting, which was being heavily shelled, and occupied the support trenches. The Germans could be seen advancing by twos and threes with the object of forming a sufficiently strong line to attack, but they were scattered by our rifle fire before they could complete the assembly. At night patrols were sent out to obtain identifications but were not successful, since the enemy had had time to remove their dead and wounded. [Sidenote: Mar. 25.]