Aug.
After three days’ rest in Forest Area the 3rd Battalion went by train to Elverdinghe, and marched up from there to the front line. While the relief was being carried out there was a good deal of shelling, and Second Lieutenant G. V. G. A. Webster, a keen young officer of great promise, was killed by a shell. After a week’s rest at Herzeele, the 3rd Battalion moved into Corps Reserve, while the Twentieth and Twenty-ninth Divisions attacked on the 16th. It returned to Herzeele on the 19th, and on the 22nd went to De Wippe Camp.
Sept.
On September 4 the Battalion moved to Eton Camp, which was close to the railway, and therefore exposed to attacks by the enemy’s aircraft. There were no less than forty casualties from bombs dropped from aeroplanes. On the 12th the Battalion moved to Rugby Camp, which was regularly shelled at night, and then took over the trenches in the Broembeek sector. For four days it was subjected to considerable shelling, and on the 20th it prolonged the line to the left, where the 10th King’s Royal Rifle Corps
attacked, and took their objective. The casualties during the four days were 6 killed and 28 wounded, including Lieut. the Hon. A. M. Borthwick, Lieut. E. D. Tate, and Lieut. R. W. Eliot Cornell.
Oct.
The first week in October was spent in training at Herzeele and Proven.
List of Officers of the 3rd Battalion at the Beginning of October
| Lieut.-Colonel A. F. A. N. Thorne, D.S.O. | Commanding Battalion. |
| Capt. E. D. Ridley, M.C. | Second in Command. |
| Capt. the Hon. A. G. Agar-Robartes, M.C. | Adjutant. |
| 2nd Lieut. L. Holbech | Assistant Adjutant. |
| Lieut. C. C. Carstairs | Intelligence Officer. |
| Lieut. M. Duquenoy | Transport Officer. |
| Lieut. G. H. Wall | Quartermaster. |
| 2nd Lieut. F. W. R. Greenhill | ” |
| Capt. J. C. Craigie, M.C. | No. 1 Company. |
| Lieut. E. R. M. Fryer, M.C. | ” ” |
| 2nd Lieut. E. G. A. Fitzgerald | ” ” |
| Lieut. E. W. Seymour | ” ” |
| Lieut. W. H. Beaumont-Nesbitt, M.C. | No. 2 Company. |
| 2nd Lieut. W. H. S. Roper | ” ” |
| 2nd Lieut. C. B. Hollins | ” ” |
| 2nd Lieut. J. Chapman | ” ” |
| Lieut. J. C. D. Tetley | No. 3 Company. |
| Lieut. G. P. Bowes-Lyon | ” ” |
| Lieut. N. Thornhill | ” ” |
| Lieut. the Hon. H. E. Eaton | ” ” |
| 2nd Lieut. A. C. Knollys | ” ” |
| Capt. G. F. R. Hirst | No. 4 Company. |
| Lieut. F. J. Heasman | ” ” |
| 2nd Lieut. C. W. Carrington | ” ” |
| 2nd Lieut. C. L. F. Boughey | ” ” |
| 2nd Lieut. F. S. V. Donnison | ” ” |
| Attached—Lieut. H. Dearden, R.A.M.C. | |