had retired, coming along - I told them to halt & get behind a hedge and get ready to open fire - poor beggars they were a bit upset by all that had taken place, but they quickly settled down & got ready for what might happen. Captain Barrett & Mr Lyon were with me then & helping me no end as they always did. Then I got a report from one of my companies that they had come on to the Germans just as the latter were trying to work round behind us. And had opened fire on them at short range & drove them back. Killing & wounding a great number of them - they caught them just betime, but we lost a few. I met Captain Browne coming back with a wound through his shoulder - but he was quite cheerful & said his company had driven the Germans back & that he himself had bayonetted a German with the latter's own bayonet. How he did it, I never had time to enquire. The Prussian Guard attack had failed on this Ypres salient & the Royal Scots Fusiliers had come up just in time - we were told afterwards that we had saved the situation whether this was so or not I cannot say, but they did