LOOS SALIENT 1916-17 On 25th November the Division took over the La Bassee sector, which included the famous Givenchy Ridge and Cuinchy Brickstacks.

After about a month it side-stepped to the Cambrin-Hohenzollern Quarries front of about 5,500 yards, where it remained until the 28th February 1917.

All this front had a most evil repute, but so exhausted was the enemy by the Somme fighting that this four months' trench sojourn proved the quietest the Division ever experienced, except before the storm of March 1918, and the casualties would have been far fewer had it not been for several raids carried out by us.
The machine-guns of the Division were strengthened on 15th December by the arrival of the 192nd M.G.Company, and on 2nd January 1917 Lt.-Col.

G.F.B.Goldney, D.S.O., succeeded Lt.-Col.

H.R.