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B Battery was assigned the defense of the road at Habiemont, just east of Werbomont. The reconnaissance party from the 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 report center at Werbomont and, upon finding that its rconnaissance party had been cut off by a blown bridge, moved into its emergency assembly area.

Immediately new positions were taken since the original map positions were without doubt 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 this reconnaissance party ran into a German forward outpost and were killed.