^* One of the footballs is in the National Army Museum and another at the Queen’s Regiment Museum, Howe Barracks, Canterbury.

^* His brother, Frank, lay out on the battlefield for several hours unaware that Dick had been killed only a few yards away.

^* Smith, normally a mild man, was so enraged at Matthews’ injury that he bayoneted three Germans within a few minutes. He was badly wounded three weeks later but recovered and survived the war.

^*Taken from Colonel Fife’s diary. The Official History says that A Company attacked at 7.45 a.m. ; the difference in times is not important. The c.o. never received an explanation from the company commander who did not return to the battalion and was killed in 1918.

^* Again from the diary of Maj. Vignoles. 2nd Lieut Hendin was killed at Arras in April 1917.