24 men, coalminers by profession.  Lieut.  Moore soon got to work and, so well did the “amateurs” perform this new task, that within a few days galleries had been started, and we were already in touch with the Boche underground.  In an incredibly short space of time, thanks very largely to the personal efforts of Lieut.  Moore, who spent hours every day down below within a few feet of the enemy’s miners, two German mine-shafts and their occupants were blown in by a “camouflet,” and both E1 left and E1 right were completely protected from further mining attacks by a defensive gallery along their front.  For this Lieut.  Moore was awarded a very well deserved Military Cross.

[Illustration:  R.S.M.  R.E.  Small, D.C.M.]

[Illustration:  R.Q.M.S R. Gorse, M.S.M.  R.S.M.  H.G.  Lovett, M.C., D.C.M.]

After the second tour in this sector we again made a slight change in the line, giving up the “F” trenches and taking instead “G3”, “G4,” “G4a,” “H1,” “H2” and “H5,” again relieving the Sherwood Foresters, who extended their line to the left.  Unfortunately, they still retained the Doctor’s House in Kemmel as their Headquarters, and, as Lindenhoek Chalet was now too far South, Colonel Jones had to find a new home in the village, and chose a small shop in one of the lesser streets.  We had scarcely been 24 hours in the new billet when, at mid-day, the 4th June, the Boche started to bombard the place with 5.9’s, just when Colonel Jessop, of the 4th Lincolnshires, was talking to Colonel Jones in the road outside the house, while an orderly held the two horses close by.  The first shell fell almost on the party, killing Colonel Jessop, the two orderlies, Bacchus and Blackham, and both horses.  Colonel Jones was wounded in the hand, neck and thigh, fortunately not very seriously, though he had to be sent at once to England, having escaped death by little short of a miracle.  His loss was very keenly felt by all of us, for ever since we had come to France, he had been the life and soul of the Battalion, and it was hard to imagine trenches, where we should not receive his daily cheerful visit.  We had two reassuring thoughts, one that the General had promised to keep his command open for him as soon as he should return, the second that during his absence we should be commanded by Major Toller, who had been with us all the time, and was consequently well known to all of us.

[Illustration:  Bomb Corner, Ypres 1915.]

[Illustration:  Bomb Corner, Ypres 1915.]

[Illustration:  Barracks, Ypres 1915.]

(Photos by Capt.  C.R.  Knighton.)

Meanwhile we had considerably advanced in our own esteem by having become instructors to one of the first “New Army” Divisions to come to France, the 14th Light Infantry Division, composed of three battalions of Rifle Brigade and 60th, and a battalion of each of the British Light Infantry Regiments.  They were attached to us, just as we had been attached to the 12th Brigade at Armentieres,