Commanding 55th Division.
The following decorations were awarded in respect of the battle and announced on 11th November:—
| MILITARY CROSS | Captain A. T. Houghton. | |
| Second Lieutenant S. A. H. Pruden. | ||
| Second Lieutenant L. Brooke. | ||
| D.C.M. | 200051 | C.S.M. Roberts, H. |
| 200077 | Corporal Prescott, S. | |
| MILITARY MEDAL | 200782 | Private Parks, T. |
| 201197 | Corporal Thompson, J. | |
| 200682 | Private Coupe, F. | |
| 200895 | Lance-Sergeant Knowles, R. | |
| 12154 | Lance-Corporal Cayton, R. | |
| 290665 | Private Pendlebury, T. | |
| 202967 | Private Yates, W. | |
| 291178 | Private Goodwin, H. | |
| 201350 | Corporal Robinson, J. | |
| 29679 | Private Parkinson, T. | |
| 34304 | Private Jones, T. | |
| 16940 | Private Cunningham, D. | |
| 202099 | Private Wyre, F. | |
| 200756 | Lance-Corporal Gorton, F. | |
| 201542 | Sergeant Bell, H. | |
| 6693 | Lance-Sergeant Murphey, J. | |
| 200352 | Private Thistleton, T. | |
| 238002 | Private Roocroft, W. | |
CHAPTER VIII.
CAMBRAI, 25th September, 1917 to 6th December, 1917.
At WATOU we began once more to pull the Battalion together and bring it up to strength, and reinforcements began to come in. Captain Duggan, M.C., from the 10th Battalion, joined us here, also Second Lieutenants J. O. Firth, J. H. Livesey, H. Ramsbottom, and P. Adamson, and 18 Other Ranks.
On the 26th we marched to HOPOUTRE, where we entrained and moved out at 9 30 a.m., travelling in cattle trucks via ARRAS to BAPAUME, where we arrived about 7 p.m. Thence we marched through desolate and ruined country to a pile of ruins labelled YTRES, where we shared a canvas camp with a Battalion of the Buffs for the night; they left the following morning.
Major Crump rejoined us from England on the 30th.