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it to the end.
A little before the last letter I received from him in France, his Company suffered a very heavy bombardment. I have seen a letter from an officer of another Company, who wrote: -
"After the bombardment was over, I had to go along to B Company and see how they were. It was deuced tough going. There were hardly any duck-boards left (these are the wooden footways raised above the mud), and two or three times I fell down holes three or four feet deep. Things were in a deuce of a mess there – parapets and dug-outs and everything mere heaps of earth. This was Ferguson's Company – his is now a Captain. The three officers with him were outed – one missing and two badly wounded, and he had about 24 men killed and 60 wounded."
Arthur's own account of this was: -
"My Company had a bit of a scrap the other night, which I pulled through with a practically whole skin and a little bumping. Two of my officers were killed and the other two wounded, but the casualties on the whole were not so heavy as I feared, and no ground was lost. The General was rather pleased with the way things went."
The General's An officer on the General's staff, writing to his own people about it, said: -
"Arthur Ferguson has been doing excellent work, and shone out the other night under rather severe circumstances, earning the approbation of everyone in the Brigade."