Looking For Casualties

We had to find out what happened to our drivers. Our drivers were all behind at the graveyard. We then go to all the aid posts, casualty clearing stations. We found the first three, was 11 of our troop I think, 10 or 11. And then we come to our TAC headquarters where Major Crown was, and we went in there to find out if any of our fellows were in there. If they were all right. So, we had one fellow yet to find. We’d found Cockwell and Agnew. Cockwell was slightly wounded. Agnew was bare except for a civilian grey coat. Agnew was kind of half crying, he can’t find Jackie MacMillan. We knew where all the rest of them were. We came out the last casualty clearing station and here was a little fellow, sitting on a bench, great big bandage on his nose. I thought, that’s that little beggar. I just walked up to him and I hit him a clout and said, “Is that the only place you can get hit? ” He said, “I’m sure glad to see you, Gordie,” and I was glad to see him. So that was, out of the troop we lost, two killed and I think 12 wounded out of about 40 odd fellows. So we took the most casualties in our troop.