2nd Bn. Coldstream Guards will be in support on the right.
3rd Bn. Coldstream Guards will be in support on the left.
3. Formation of Attack.—The Battalion will form up in two lines, one in the firing line and one in the support line, care being taken that bayonets do not show on the top of the trenches before zero.
Front Line.—No. 1 Coy. on left, No. 2 Coy. on the right.
Support Line.—No. 3 Coy. on left, No. 4 Coy. on the right.
Forming-up areas, boundaries, and objective as shown on map at Headquarters, to be copied in.
4. First objective is marked Green. Second objective Brown. Third objective Blue.
5. Task.—To press the attack through to the Blue line, a sufficient flow of troops being maintained to ensure that the Brown line is strong and well supported.
6. (a) At zero the creeping barrage will start 100 yards in front of our front-line trenches. It will advance at the rate of 50 yards a minute until it is 200 yards beyond the Green line, when it will become stationary.
At zero Nos. 1 and 2 Coys. will advance to the attack of the Green line, followed at 75 yards’ distance by Nos. 3 and 4 Coys., who will not stop at our old front line but will push on into the Green line. On reaching the Green line companies will at once reorganise.