Sometimes they advanced a little way down towards the valley.

On the right the Gloucesters about eleven o'clock came over the ridge on to a flat little piece of grass land in front.

I suppose they expected to get a better range or clearer view, but within a few minutes that patch of grass was spotted with lumps of khaki.

Two officers--one their colonel--and six men were killed outright, and the official list of wounded runs to over fifty.

When they had withdrawn again to the ridge the doctors and privates went out to bring the wounded back.