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Rear-guard actions.--The Somme crossings.--Bennett relieved by the 20th Division at Voyennes.--Davenport with mixed troops ordered to counter-attack at Ham.--Davenport killed.--The enemy crosses the Somme.--The stand by the 184th Infantry Brigade at Nesle.--Colonel Wetherall wounded.--Counter-attack against La Motte.--Bennett captured.--The Battalion's sacrifice in the great battle.