Artillery. 8th Brigade attacked but could not dislodge enemy. Royal Scots Fusiliers ordered to prolong the line of the Royal Scots to the right. A & C Companies told off to pass through wood & take enemy on right flank. D & B in support. Very difficult going. Dense wood. A Company was fired on & had two killed and some wounded. Total casualties 24 killed & wounded of battalion. [In pencil in margin: Germans put up a very fine defence & their rearguard work was an example of how it should be done] 9 September 1914 Crossed the Marne at NANTEUIL (Germans had not destroyed this bridge) & rested (?) at BEZU. Battalion in reserve. Just before dark we were ordered to march & bivouac a mile further north. Lincolns after hard fight put battery out of action [in pencil: & captured the battery.] 10 September 1914 9th Infantry Brigade formed advance guard to the division and 7th Fusiliers and ourselves formed the van & main guards. Found enemy