At 2pm on Wednesday the 13^th October men of the 137^th and 138^th Brigades left the assembly trenches and crossed no-mans-land towards their objectives and at the same time men of the Sherwood Foresters moved forward in support. “A” Company (Robinson) remained in the support trenches whilst “B” (Dick) and “D” (Wheatcroft) Companies pushed forward to the Dump in support of the 5^th South Staffordshires, which was the right leading Battalion of the 137^th Brigade.

During the early afternoon 2/Lt Lytle and the Battalion Grenadiers were ordered to bomb Slag Alley and Dump Trench. However this provided impossible so in response to repeated messages for assistance William Lytle took his section of grenadiers to the south end of Big Willie and remained there until the night of the 14^th. During this time he led two bombing attacks on Big Willie and in the second attack 1373 Cpl Ernest Jordan penetrated nearest to the German trench block and was the last man to retire. He was aided in this attack by 2156 Sergt. Thomas Taylor and 3234 A/ Cpl Ernest Munday and all four men were mentioned in despatches.