72nd Seaforth Highlanders of Canada - waughfamily.ca

GERMANY S INNINGS.was made of smoke grenades in these practices, and theoperations which ensued proved the soundness of thistraining. In connection with these departments of activity the Battalion, in company with the rest of the Brigade,was, on June 7th, taken in lorries to witness and take partin a very interesting and instructive tank demonstrationat Enguinegatte. During the stay at Auchel, officers andother ranks of the Battalion visited and were visited byofficers and other ranks of the 2nd Imperial Seaforths, whowere there holding the line at Mt. Bernenchon, with theirtransport lines close to Allouagne. Auchel was at this timefrequently shelled and bombed, and on one occasion a fewcasualties were caused by a bomb demolishing one of thesergeantsbillets.Corps sports, having been set for July 1st, preliminaryBattalion, Brigade and Divisional sports were arranged.In accordance with this the 72nd sports were held at Auchel on June 8th, a feature of this occasion being the presence of the pipe band of the 2nd Imperial Seaforths. Brigade sports were held on June 12th at Ferfay, and the72nd secured the Brigade championship with 88 points,the 78th Battalion being second with 39 points. Exclusiveof the Transport competition, twelve events in all werewon by the 72nd, the principal ones being the indoor baseball, tug of war, one-half and one-mile medley relay races,officers one-half mile medley relay race, shuttle relay raceand one-half mile race. Divisional sports were held atPernes on June 15th. Unfortunately on this occasion theBattalion did not do as well as generally, although thetug of war team upheld its reputation by easily winningthe Divisional championship. In the elimination for theCorps sports the tug of war team met a team from the1st Division. The arrangements for keeping the course andfor refereeing were very poor, and as a result of this thecrowd closed in on the teams. There was great doubt asto which side had won the victory, and a dispute followed,103