It was carried out by the 1st Battalion North Staffordshire Regiment and 12th Field Company, and Sir H.Smith-Dorrien (Army Commander), in congratulating the regiment, mentioned particularly Lieuts.

Pope and Gordon for fine leading.

But if there was no heavy fighting, the trench casualties from sniping and enemy shell-fire were quite considerable (see Appendix).

We had practically no artillery ammunition with which to worry the enemy, as the following extract from the Divisional War Diary shows:-- _24th April 1915._--"In view of the fighting in progress in the north (Second Battle of Ypres) the Corps Commander allots an extra ten rounds of shrapnel per gun for 18-pounders with a view to making a demonstration by fire to hold the enemy in front of us." Amusing reading in 1919! The Division continued to hold a quiet but very extended front till the end of May, receiving a succession of units from new Divisions to serve their apprenticeship to trench warfare.
Amongst our visitors, during this period, were units of the 9th Division, and some of those who have read Ian Hay's _The First Hundred Thousand_ will have recognized in it a description of a part of the trenches of the 19th Infantry Brigade.
During this period the four brigades each received a fifth Territorial Battalion--the Queen's Westminsters joining on the 11th November and being allotted to the 18th Infantry Brigade; the 5th Scottish Rifles, who went to the 19th Infantry Brigade, joining on the 19th November; the 2nd Battalion London Regiment joining the 17th Infantry Brigade in February, and the 5th Battalion Loyal North Lancashire Regiment the 16th Infantry Brigade on the 15th of that month.

The 38th Field Company left the Division on the 9th April, and on the 21st December 1914 the 1st London Field Company, later the 509th, began its long connection with the 6th Division.