[60] Many dead South Africans were seen in front of Snag Trench by the 27th Brigade.
[61] Commanded by Lieut.-Colonel Sir George Abercromby since the 20th September; Lieut.-Colonel Gordon, D.S.O., was promoted to a brigade in the Forty-first Division.
[62] Here more might have been done to help the men by divisions in the line handing over stores to those taking over. It would have saved trouble if the ammunition for the machine-guns had been kept in sealed boxes and handed over; this plan was adopted later.
[63] The artillery stayed in and supported the attack by the Fiftieth Division on the Butte.
[64] Unfortunately long and constant strain had told on his health, and shortly after his appointment to the Thirty-seventh Division he was invalided to England.
[65] For his services in the war General Furse received the K.C.B. in June 1917.
[66] In Three Years with the Ninth Division Lieut.-Colonel Croft discusses several questions of interest to C.Os.
[67] The barrage fell along three sides of a rectangle, screening the infantry from the front and the flanks.
[68] News from the very start was good. Brig.-General Tudor, who was in the trenches watching the raid, was in touch with the front line by telephone, and the only reports he received were, “One more penny”—“Two more pennies,” etc. “Penny” was the code word for prisoner.
[69] The following message was sent by Sir Douglas Haig on the 16th:—“Congratulate the Ninth Scottish Division, and particularly the 9th Scottish Rifles, on the success of their raid carried out on the 14th.”