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Updated: May 21, 2025
"Simultaneously Mr. Doxsee called for reinforcements to repel a direct frontal attack on our forward trench and machine-gun house. "Reinforcements hurried up along the new communication trench, but were anticipated by Mr. Scott and a score or so of men, who dashed across the open and repelled the attack, Mr. Doxsee being unfortunately killed at this point.
The former had crawled out along the hedge to a dangerous and commanding knoll, and from there put eighteen of the enemy out of action before a sniper's bullet found him. The dead lay exposed where they fell, and could readily be counted from the house. Captain Culling asked that they take on the attack, and Mr. Doxsee volunteered to lead it.
Doxsee attacked the neighbouring house and succeeded in driving the enemy from it with a loss of only two men killed and another wounded. "At dawn of the 23rd the enemy commenced shelling the house and trench, but the losses inflicted were slight owing to the two parallel hedges, which made both ranging and observing difficult.
The response was feeble, and the attack petered out to nothing, Bugler Hunt and a man of the Toronto Battalion being killed by the side of Doxsee, who, finding himself alone, returned to the trench unharmed. "The Toronto men now tried a flanking movement on our immediate right, but lost eight men and had to abandon the attempt.
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