Major (temp. Lieut.-Colonel) Lord Henry Seymour, D.S.O. Commanding Officer. Lieut. (temp. Captain) R. S. Lambert Adjutant. 2nd Lieut. R. A. Gault Sapping Platoon. 2nd Lieut. A. F. Newey No. 1 Company. 2nd Lieut. B. Burman ” ” 2nd Lieut. A. C. Flower ” ” Lieut. (temp. Captain) C. R. Britten No. 2 Company. 2nd Lieut. G. H. T. Paton ” ” 2nd Lieut. C. G. Keith ” ” Capt. W. A. L. Stewart No. 3 Company. Lieut. R. Farquhar ” ” Lieut. M. H. F. Payne-Gallwey ” ” Capt. E. G. Spencer-Churchill No. 4 Company. Lieut. L. Abel-Smith ” ” 2nd Lieut. J. W. F. Selby-Lowndes ” ” Capt. N. Grellier, M.C., R.A.M.C. Medical Officer. [Sidenote: Sept. 15.] The attack started at 6.20 A.M., and the 1st and 2nd Guards Brigades advanced with the 3rd Guards Brigade in reserve. After some waiting news was brought down to the 3rd Brigade by the wounded that the first objective had been secured, and about 9 A.M. the Brigade received orders to move up to a position north of Ginchy, and be prepared to support the attack or counter any hostile movement against the right flank of the Division. Originally it had been intended that the 4th Battalion Grenadiers should pass through the rows of massed field-guns, but when the guns began an intense fire this was obviously impossible, and orders were therefore issued for the Battalion to move by platoons at 100 yards’ interval along the old railway. The advance was made with the 4th Battalion Grenadiers on the right and the 2nd Battalion Scots Guards on the left, and they reached trenches near Ginchy in comparative safety, as the German barrage did not extend so far back.