The 5th Infantry Brigade much appreciates the support given them on their left by the 1st Batt. Grenadier Guards in Beatty Post and Alban Trench. The counter-attack repulsed by Grenadier Guardsmen would have fallen on their weakened Companies. A captured map showed the Hun main line running down Hunt Avenue with outposts in Slag Avenue, and the counter-attack was evidently made to gain this resistance line. Will you please thank Colonel Lord Gort from me on behalf of the 5th I.B. The week preceding the attack on Premy Chapel was uneventful, and on the 25th Major-General Matheson explained the details of the operations. Captain Lawford was appointed to the Staff of the Fourth Army, and Captain Lovell, M.C., took over the duties of Adjutant. [Illustration: _Attack on Premy Chapel_ _September 27th. 1918_ _Emery Walker Ltd._ ] _The Attack on Premy Chapel_ [Sidenote: Sept. 26.] On the evening of the 26th the Battalion left its billets about a mile north-west of the village of Lagnicourt, and marched with its full battle equipment, accompanied by Lewis guns, limbers, field-kitchens, and water-carts, along the Lagnicourt--Doignies road, to its bivouacs about 1500 yards west of Louverval Wood. The strength of the Battalion was 15 officers and 395 other ranks actually going into action. The officers who took part in the attack were: Lieut.-Colonel Viscount Gort, D.S.O., M.V.O., M.C. Commanding Officer. Capt. W. H. Lovell, M.C. Adjutant. 2nd Lieut. J. C. Blunt Intelligence Officer. Lieut. A. M. Brown King's Company. Lieut. C. G. Kennaway " " Capt. J. S. Carter No. 2 Company. Lieut. A. A. Morris " " Lieut. L. C. Jesper " " Capt. J. H. C. Simpson No. 3 Company. 2nd Lieut. L. F. A. d'Erlanger " " 2nd Lieut. G. S. Lamont " " Lieut. B. H. Jones No. 4 Company. 2nd Lieut. D. H. Clarke " " 2nd Lieut. A. Grant " " Capt. W. Lindsay, R.A.M.C. Medical Officer. Capt. the Rev. C. Venables Chaplain. Lieut. R. W. F. Echlin was acting Brigade Transport Officer, and Lieut. R. G. Buchanan as Quartermaster. Lord Gort issued the following operation orders: The Battalion will attack Premy Chapel hill tomorrow the 27th, with the object of securing the line of the sunken road. The attack will be made in conjunction with the 2/20th London Regiment, who will be advancing on Marcoing, and the 2nd Battalion Scots Guards, who will be attacking Leech Trench.