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 Lieut. P. H. Antrobus             Transport Officer. 2nd Lieut. L. S. Straker          Machine-gun Officer. The Rev. S. Knapp                 Chaplain. Lieut. L. W. Bain                 Medical Officer. Lieut. H. Hickie                  Quartermaster.

No. 1 Company

Capt. M. V. Gore-Langton. Lieut. R. C. G. Yerburgh. 2nd Lieut. F. H. Witts. 2nd Lieut. R. H. W. Heard. 2nd Lieut. J. Grayling-Major.

No. 2 Company

Capt. T. W. D. Bailie. Lieut. R. Rankin. 2nd Lieut. W. B. Stevens. 2nd Lieut. K. E. Dormer. 2nd Lieut. L. C. Whitefoord. 2nd Lieut. Hon. H. B. O'Brien.

No. 3 Company

Capt. V. C. J. Blake. Lieut. C. D. Wynter. 2nd Lieut. J. T. Robyns. 2nd Lieut. N. F. Durant. 2nd Lieut. K. W. Hogg.

No. 4 Company

Lieut. J. S. N. FitzGerald. Lieut. L. R. Hargreaves. 2nd Lieut. A. F. L. Gordon. 2nd Lieut. P. H. J. Close. 2nd Lieut. R. J. P. Rodakowski.

There is no hint of the desperate hard work of the 2nd, reserve, Battalion at Warley, which made possible the supply at such short notice of so many officers of such quality. These inner workings of a regiment are known only to those who have borne the burden.

On the 31st May the 4th (Guards) Brigade was shifted from Oblinghem to billets near the most unpleasing village of Nœux-les-Mines, farther south than they had ever been before, as Divisional Reserve to a couple of brigades of the 2nd Division in trenches recently taken over from the French. The Brigade moved off in two columns, through Béthune down the main road to Arras, where they were seen by the Ger