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 "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