. The story of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry . t of each assisted the effect of the one began to sneeze from the effect of non-lethalgas, one could not wear a gas-helmet to resist thelethal; the high-explosive shells disguised bothtypes. Now it was planned by Wetherall to firelethal gas against the enemy for several nights. Onthe night of the raid and during it, non-lethal onlywould be used. The two gases smelt alike and thepresumption was that on the night of the raid theenemy would wear gas-helmets. On the evening of November 17, only an hourbefore the rai
. The story of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry . t of each assisted the effect of the one began to sneeze from the effect of non-lethalgas, one could not wear a gas-helmet to resist thelethal; the high-explosive shells disguised bothtypes. Now it was planned by Wetherall to firelethal gas against the enemy for several nights. Onthe night of the raid and during it, non-lethal onlywould be used. The two gases smelt alike and thepresumption was that on the night of the raid theenemy would wear gas-helmets. On the evening of November 17, only an hourbefore the raid was to take place, it was announcedthat the wrong type of shells had been delivered tothe artillery. Barely in time to avert a fiasco, theaffair was cancelled. Two nights afterwards, whenthe wind luckily was again from the right direction,the raid was carried out. The Germans, of whomsome were found in gas-helmets, had no inkling ofour plan. B Company, though they missed thegap through the enemys wire, entered the trencheswithout opposition and captured a machine-gun. F 50- AUTUMN AT ARRAS, OCTOBER NOVEMBER, I9I/. 151 which was pointing- directly at their approach butnever fired. Wallington, the officer in command ofthe storming party, killed several Germans. Asoften, there was difficulty in finding the way backto our lines; in fact, Moberly, the commander ofthe raid, after some wandering in No-Mans-Land,entered the trenches of a Scotch division upon ourright. His appearance and comparative inabilityto speak their language made him a suspiciousvisitor to our kilted neighbours. Moberly rejoinedhis countrymen under escort. For a long time it seemed that no materialresults had been achieved in the raid. But the nextmorning Private Hatt, who for his exploit gainedthe , crawled into our lines carrying themachine-gun which he had hugged all night be-tween the German lines and ours. This raid tookplace the night preceding the great Cambraioffensive, and the success of Moberly
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