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*Quote[[Percy Wilfred Machell|Lt-Col. P. W. Machell]]: "McKerrow (Lieut.) was out with a small patrol, bumped into sniper—all[[sniping|sniper]]—all Germans started to shoot—McKerrow told the men to crawl, and got back with corporal and two men. Two other men were missing; they lost their way, keeping too much to the right, climbed carefully over what they thought was our parapet, and found good steps inside, trenches[[trench]]es 12 feet deep, all well walled up, and the floors boarded, clean and dry. One said to the other, ''These ain’t our [?] trenches!'' - saw a fine dug-out, and wanted to throw a bomb in, and the German wire had been so awful to get through they knew they wouldn’t be able to. They just had time to skip up on top of the parapet when 40 men passed within a yard of them. They got through the wire with some noise, the Germans firing as the wire rattled, but got back safely." &ndash; [[Percy Wilfred Machell|Lt-Col. P. W. Machell]] <ref>[[Record of the XIth (Service) Battalion (Lonsdale) - In France]]</ref>

**One [[company]] remains at Colincamp for working party, one company in trenches O.P.outpost [[dug-out|dugouts]].

*Deaths: [[Walter Ousby (27995 Pte.)]].