[Insert: manuscript letter and attached report to WDS from F J Duncan PERSONAL 60th Infantry Brigade 23 January Dear General Douglas-Smith Herewith a few rough notes on the events of 30th November. They are made entirely from memory but, so far as I can remember are, in the main, accurate in a broad sense. I had been particularly insistent about machine gun defence of the right flank. I have never found anyone who could tell me what happened to these guns. From what I have managed to gather I fancy they must have been completely taken in rear. Some sappers who were in a dug out near there certainly were, for Lee, of 83 Company Royal Engineers, was wounded and taken prisoner. I think the Battalion in the Ravine (Troughton's?) must also have been taken in flank. I suppose you have 59th['s] account sent in by them and made up from statements of their commanding officers. I have only given notes regarding events on 30th. The 1st and 2nd December were spent in hard defensive fighting, in which 2 companies of Durham Light Infantry joined. I have not been able to obtain access to accounts of doings of 60th Brigade but I have asked Erleigh to go tonight to Battalion Transport Lines to get their war diaries.