As I expected, our Officers have set a splendid example of capacity and bravery. It is hard to think what terrible losses all this splendid work has entailed on the Regiment, and how many Officers we have to mourn. May they not have given their precious lives for nothing, but may their names and example be ever preserved in the Regiment in whose honour they have fallen.
I hope that never again will companies have to occupy so large a front as ours have done; with less good troops the risk would appear to me to have been too great to run.
I am glad to hear such good accounts of our 4th Reserve Battalion. I thank you for so kindly sending on my message to the 1st and 2nd Battalions. I was anxious that they should know that although so far away they were in my thoughts.—Believe me, yours very sincerely,
(Signed) Arthur.
List of Officers of the 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards on January 1, 1915
Lieut.-Colonel L. R. Fisher-Rowe, Commanding Officer.
Major G. F. Trotter, M.V.O., D.S.O., Second in Command.
Lieut. C. V. Fisher-Rowe, Adjutant.
2nd Lieut. E. H. J. Duberly, Machine-gun Officer.
Lieut. C. Mitchell, Acting Quartermaster.