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by the ist E. Yorks R., about Grandcourt, and about one hundred prisoners were taken
and twenty machine-guns. Then the Germans became demoralised and discarded their
arms and equipment.
SKETCH TO ILLUSTRATE THE NIGHT ATTACK OF 23/24TH AUGUST, 1918,
64th INFANTRY BRIGADE.
Note: In this sketch the reader is looking eastward down the Valley. The distance from Beaucourt
to Grandcourt is one mile.
To enable the advance to be carried out effectively, an officer from Brigade H. Q.
worked as liaison officer with each battalion, and at each stage of the operation reported
progress to the Brigadier and conveyed his orders back to the battalions. The writer,
who acted as liaison officer to the qth K.O.Y.L.I., was reporting to the Brigadier at this
stage when they encountered a German party under an officer. These Germans had hidden
when the attackers passed by, but they quickly surrendered when tackled. The 15th
D.L.I., for whom the General was searching, and who had been held up in front of Boom
Ravine, were close at hand, and just as he reached them he was severely wounded in the
thigh by a German machine-gunner. General McCulloch left instructions with Capt.
Spicer, M.C., the Brigade Major, for the final move up the slopes of Hill 135, and the
