Battalion Headquarters (K Company) were disposed as follows: Clerks, signallers, pioneers, In dugout and control trench snipers, etc. (34 other ranks) of Woman Street. Company runners (16 other In a sap adjoining. ranks) Battalion Bombers In a "crump" hole near the Woman Street Battalion H.Q. dugout. Battalion Trench Pioneers W 50 R. M.O. and Staff Aid Post (Junction of Wood Street and Cross Street). Band Ditto. Reserve Lewis Gunners Divided between A and B Companies. Regimental Police In control posts, chiefly at intersection of fire trenches with communication trenches throughout the sector. A runner from the right company (A) reporting it in position arrived at Headquarters at 8.15 a.m., but no report was received from any other company, and from this time onwards throughout the day communication was exceedingly difficult on account of the very heavy German barrage which fell on all lines in W sector immediately after zero. It was reported, however, by observers that all had successfully formed up on their battle positions. We must now turn for a moment to the leading battalions. On the right the London Scottish advanced under the effective cover of the smoke barrage, which was in fact so thick as to render the maintenance of the correct direction a matter of difficulty, and occupied Farm, Fell and Fate as far north as the Bucquoy Road, and also the greater part of the strong point at the southern extremity of attack. The blocking of the adjoining trenches and consolidation of the captured lines was at once put in hand. The left companies appear to have been drawn off somewhat towards Nameless Farm but seem to have kept in touch with the Rangers on their left. Shortly after 8 o'clock the Scottish were joined by a company of Kensingtons, who did good work in the consolidation of Farm-Farmyard. On the left four companies of the Rangers also crossed No Man's Land, and although the position is obscure there can be no doubt that parties of all companies succeeded in reaching the final objectives in Felon, Elbe and Epte, and gained touch on Nameless Farm Road with the 169th Brigade on the left. At these advanced points bomb fighting in the communication trenches began and the struggle was pursued along the line with varying success. Realising the pressure that was being brought to bear on his now dangerously weak companies the O.C. Rangers asked for two companies of the 1/4th Londons to lend the weight necessary to carry forward his attack again.