. The story of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry . ist them inholding the line. At the Brigade sports, held atLinghem on July 7, the Battalion easily carried offthe cup offered for competition by General the relay race Sergeant Brazier accomplished afine performance, while in the boxing we showedsuch superiority that no future Brigade competi-tion ever took Before we left La Pierriere what can well belooked back to as a red-letter day was spent insports and a full programme of entertainments,including the Divisional Frolics, who were pre-vailed on to per
. The story of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry . ist them inholding the line. At the Brigade sports, held atLinghem on July 7, the Battalion easily carried offthe cup offered for competition by General the relay race Sergeant Brazier accomplished afine performance, while in the boxing we showedsuch superiority that no future Brigade competi-tion ever took Before we left La Pierriere what can well belooked back to as a red-letter day was spent insports and a full programme of entertainments,including the Divisional Frolics, who were pre-vailed on to perform in a farmyard, jimmy Kirkalso brought his coaching party of clowns—who onthis occasion avoided a conflict with the MilitaryPolice—and of course the Battalion Band regaledus with choice items throughout the day. In thesports a race had to be re-run because one of thecompetitors, instead of waiting for the pistol 1 In the realm of sport a later achievement of the Bat-talion deserves record. On July 27 at the XI Corps horse-show our team won the open THE HEADQUARTERS RUNNERS, JULY 1918. p. 199- THE TURNING OF THE TIDE, 1918. 199 (A. E. G. Bennett with home-made blanks ) startedat the report of our 6-inch gun in the next orchard,which occurred a fraction of a second earlier. Theevening was saved from bathos by the news that theDivision was to be relieved. Life operates by con-trast, and though the war was going on a few milesto the eastward I believe as much pleasure wasexperienced that day in the small orchard behindHeadquarters at La Pierriere as in any elaboratepeace celebration in this country. Indeed, to seethe crowd celebrating the armistice up and downthe Strand was enough to make one recall withregret such an occasion of the war as I have de-scribed. On July 10 we moved back, most of the way bybus, to Liettres, a very pretty village well behindthe line and south-west of Aire. Hardly were wesettled before we were ordered to move, which wedid with no ve
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