* From the papers of the late Mr J. W. Stansby kindly loaned by his widow, Mrs J. Stansby, Yelverton, Norfolk.

* For his actions on 1 July, Philip Howe was later awarded the Military Cross.

* No action was taken against the sergeant for his refusal. Later, as C.S.M. W. E. Hamp, D.C.M., M.M., he was killed in action at Arras, in June 1917.