and some other trenches leading towards his second line, & this we had to be content with. The Brigade was relieved that night by the 8th Brigade and we went back to billets - I got back at day light. Our casualties were very heavy - 70 officers & 2000 other ranks killed & wounded in the Brigade. [Insert in pencil: Captain Wavel Black Watch He lost one eye.] My brigade major was wounded in the head. The Germans suffered many casualties, too, but not nearly as heavy as ours, possibly 5 or 6 hundred but they may have been heavier it is hard to say. Officers reported that there were many dead Germans in the trenches and we took about 100 prisoners and two machine guns. Our infantry charged magnificently, & if they had not, advanced so quickly it would have been possible