SE of Buissy - Sept 27^th – 5.20am: At zero hour the Bde opened a creeping barrage covering the 1^st Canadian Division in their attack on Sains les Marquion. The battery area came under heavy hostile retaliation. Lt. R.E. Arnold (A Battery) and several OR’s wounded.

The FOO [Forward Observation Officer] party casualties of Lt. H. Lee (A Battery) and 2 signallers were also wounded early in the day.

At zero plus 595 minutes the Bde passed on the tactical control of the 11^th D.A on the left flank of the Canadian Corps.

Sept 28: The Bde moved up during the night of 27/28^th to positions in W 11 D and W 11 A firing north across the Canal de la Sensee. Bde O.P. [Observation Post] established on the high ground near Foisy le Verger. Bde covering 34^th I. Bde [Infantry Brigade]

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Mr A H Tilley, 46 Railway Terrace, has received news that his son, Horace, a gunner in the Royal Artillery, was killed while gun laying on September 27^th.  He was 20 years of age, and before enlisting in March, 1917, was employed in the Controller Department at the B.T.H.  In a letter to the parents his sergeant says:- “ I lost in your son a very useful lad, an intelligent gunner, conscientious and thoroughly reliable taking, as he did, a great interest in his work".