Next morning (11th October), when the 3rd Guards Brigade came through them and attacked over the naked grass and stubble fields towards St. Python and Solesmes, the Battalion was withdrawn and sent to very good billets in Quiévy. “The men having both upstairs and cellar room. All billets very dirty,” says the Diary, “owing to the previous occupants (Hun) apparently having taken delight in scattering all the civilian clothes, food, furniture, etc., all over the place.” Every one was tired out; they had hardly slept for three nights; but all “were in the best of spirits.” Brigade Headquarters had found what was described as “a magnificent house” with “a most comfortable” bed in “a large room.” Those who used it were lyric in their letters home. The total casualties for the 10th and 11th October were amazingly few. Second Lieutenant V. J. S. French was the only casualty among the officers, and, of other ranks, but three were killed and nine wounded. The officers who took part in the operations were these: _No. 1 Company_ Lieut. H. E. Van der Noot. 2nd Lieut. J. C. Haydon. 2nd Lieut. R. E. Taylor. _No. 2 Company_ Lieut. E. M. Harvey, M.C. 2nd Lieut. G. T. Todd. 2nd Lieut. A. L. W. Koch de Gooreynd. _No. 3 Company_ Lieut. F. S. L. Smith, M.C. Lieut. G. E. F. Van der Noot. 2nd Lieut. J. J. B. Brady. _No. 4 Company_ Capt. D. J. Hegarty. 2nd Lieut. Hon. C. A. Barnewall. 2nd Lieut. V. T. S. French (killed). _Battalion Headquarters_ Major A. F. Gordon, M.C. Capt. J. B. Keenan. Capt. G. L. St. C. Bambridge, M.C. They lay at Quiévy for the next week employed in cleaning up dirty billets, while the 3rd and 2nd Brigades of the Division were cleaning out the enemy rear-guards in front of them from the west bank of the Selle River, and roads and railways were stretching out behind our armies to bring redoubled supply of material. One of the extra fatigues of those days was to get the civil population out of the villages that the enemy were abandoning. This had to be done by night, for there is small chivalry in the German composition. Quiévy was shelled at intervals, and no parades larger than of a platoon were, therefore, allowed. The weather, too, stopped a scheme of field-operations in the back area between Quiévy and Bevillers, and a washed and cleanly clothed battalion were grateful to their Saints for both reliefs. On the 17th October the Sixty-first Division took over the Guards area, and that afternoon the Battalion left Quiévy by cross-country tracks for Boussières and moved into position for what turned out to be all but the last stroke of the long game.