The 4th Canadian Mounted Rifles - ElectricCanadian.com

:""DURING THE LAST GERMAN OFFENSIVE 113less Farm. In a hedge they found four 18-Pounders,two of them new, one having been passed by Ordnance aslate as April of the same year. The Division was notified,with an offer to help in man-handling them in, butnothing was done.On the next morning at 6.00 o clock a shell struck BCompany s Headquarters killing Captain T. W. E. Dixon,M.C., M.M., and wounding Captain B. D. Poyser, M.C.,Second-in-Command of the Company. Captain Dixon wasone of the most popular officers in the Regiment. Hehad been with it since its inception and had risen fromthe ranks to command a company and had been throughall the vicissitudes of the Battalion. When the Battalionwas relieved early the next morning, a squad of CaptainDixon s old scouts volunteered to carry out his body.They got back to billets in the Wippenhoek area beforedawn and at 8.00 a.m. a funeral service was held inWippenhoek cemetery. The pipers played "The Flowers of the Forest" for the lament and the bugles soundedThe Last Post. Thus the Battalion paid hasty tributeto an officer and a gentleman.Immediately afterwards, the Unit pushed on to the Aug. 4,main road west of Poperinghe where forty lorries werewaiting to transport them across to Nieurlet, wherethey arrived at noon and turned in for a well deservedsleep. Reveille was sounded at midnight and by 2.00a.m. they were moving in single file over a duck-boardtrack across the marshes to St. Omer where they wereloaded into thirty box cars, seventeen flat cars and onecoach for the officers. They pulled out at 4.00 a.m.before it was light and were never seen again in that partof the country.The train made a very fast journey to Boulogne, turnedsouth to Abbeville, followed the Somme to Amiens and at2.00 p.m. on the 6th the Battalion detrained at Saleux, Aug. 6,about six miles south-west of Amiens. In ten hours thewhole unit was in an entirely new theatre.After resting at Saleux during the afternoon of the 6th,the men moved off at 8.30 p.m. in a heavy rain, going overthe hills through Dury and St. Fuscien and down into8