[27] B.E.F., 42; C.E.F., 215.
[28] These were actually officers of Q.O.R. before leaving Canada, and are separate to above.
[29] This was the first practical illustration of the German method of infiltration which had lately been introduced and which now influences our own tactics. Blobs of Germans with light guns could be seen advancing wherever they could make progress—wherever they saw a “soft spot.”
[30] One of these, Pte. A. C. Coleman, won the D.C.M., the M.M. and the M.S.M.
[31] These two young men served right through the war from the landing of the battalion till the armistice, and always with distinction. They both got bars to their M.M.’s for this day’s work.
[32] Captain and Brevet Lt.-Colonel A. L. Ransome, D.S.O., M.C., went to France at the beginning of the war as adjutant of the 1st Battalion of the Dorsetshire Regiment, and after serving as Brigade Major of the 15th Infantry Brigade was appointed Commanding Officer of the 7th Buffs in February, 1916, with which he served without a break till September, 1918.
[33] Z + a number means that number of minutes after zero hour.
[34] This was written before the 5th Battalion ceased to exist as such.
[35] The appendices have been compiled by Major F. W. Tomlinson, Hon. Sec. of the Buffs’ History Committee, with the assistance of Miss Olive Tomlinson and Major E. F. Gould, to whom he offers his grateful thanks, as well as to the War Office and Officer in Charge of Records. The names of the dead have been taken from the official lists, but corrected and amplified as far as possible; they correspond with the names in the Roll of Honour which is to be placed in Canterbury Cathedral, in the Warriors’ Chapel.
[36] Medal of St. George, 3rd Class.