 On the front of the 1/Coldstream, just east of the Troyon factory road, the Germans had run out a sap, and it was decided to fill it in.At 8 P.M. a platoon of the battalion, led by Beckwith-Smith (who was wounded and subsequently received the Distinguished Service Order), crossing the hundred yards of No Man's Land, rushed the trench with the bayonet.The award of the DSO was reported in the Edinburgh Gazette on 13 November 1914,

Now a Captain, Beckwith-Smith was awarded the French Croix de Guerre in 1917.