2nd Battalion Grenadier Guards.
As your Brigadier I wish to say in a few words how deeply I appreciate the gallant work done by you in the recent operations at Ginchy.
On the 12th September you took over Ginchy trenches, and the following night you drove the German out of Ginchy Orchard; this work caused you one hundred casualties, but by your fine work you cleared the ground for the advance on September 15, and ensured that it would not be held up at the very beginning.
On September 15 your first advance was through a heavy artillery barrage, but owing to the splendid discipline of your Regiment, you went through it as if on parade.
Your opportunity came later on when you cleared trenches at the point of the bayonet, having run out of bombs, and when you charged a trench strongly held and in the face of machine-gun fire.
You have shown the Germans what they have to expect when they meet the pick of the British Army.
In the near future you may be called upon to do as much again, and I know that you will not fail.
C. E. Pereira, Brigadier-General,
Commanding 1st Guards Brigade.
In the Field,
September 18, 1916.