But in the first six minutes the whole course of the action changed: the heavy going at the start slowed up the advancing waves so that when the barrage made its first lift to 75 yards beyond the German front line we lost its protection for the day.  And in these first six minutes ten of our eleven officers in the attack were hit: Sare, Ross, Joy, Rooke and Taylor killed; Sinclair, Law, Planche, Simmons and Yonkles wounded.

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