1st Battalion. 3rd Guards Brigade, Guards Division: Left Ypres sector (27/7) – reaching Halloy (30/7), Bus-lès-Artois (1/8), Arquèves (6/8), Mailly-Maillet (9/8). Took over line between Beaumont-Hamel and Serre (10/8). Relived by 2nd Scots Guards and to Colincamps (14/8). To front line (17/8), Bus-lès-Artois (19/8), Vauchelles-lès-Authie (20/8), Gézaincourt (22/8), Vignacourt (24/8), Méricourt-l’Abbé (25/8), Ville-sur-Ancre (7/9). Took part in operations at Ginchy (9/9)–(11/9). Relieved and to Bernafay Wood. To Happy Valley (12/9), trenches west of Trônes Wood (14/9). Attacked towards Lesbœufs just after midday (15/9) – Regimental historian Dudley Ward recording ‘hard and confused fighting’ during the attack. Relieved and to Carnoy (17/9). To Trônes Wood (20/9), Lesbœufs sector (25/9). Capture of Gueudecourt (26/9). Relieved and to Trônes Wood. To Mansell Camp (29/9), Fricourt (30/9), St. Maulvis (1/10), Mansell Camp (6/11), Montauban (14/11) and from there front line due east of Gueudecourt.