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B Battery was assigned the defense of the road net at Habiemont, just east of Werbomont. The reconnaissance party from B Battery, consisting of Capt Browne, Capobianco, Rankin and Sproat, proceeded on the basis of these orders. The main column of B Battery continued to the battery center at Werbomont and, upon finding that its reconnaissance party had been cut off by a blown bridge. Immediate reconniassance was made for new positions since original map positions were in the hands of the enemy. The guns set up abreast, beside the road leading west to Werbomont. Later, when John Sproat managed to come back through the German lines, it was learned that the rest of the members of the reconnaissance party ran into a German forward outpost and were killed.