This field message was written on a German Army Message Form by Lieutenant Colonel Burleigh Leach to Colonel C E Pereira (staff officer), 30 October 1914 and reads as follows:
'Can you push the King's formed astride the road - YPRES - GHELUVELT - to restore the line of trenches - when this is done advise our guns put up their range by 200X - at the present they are firing into our old trenches then the line will be restored. Signed: B Leach, Lt Col 1/24th Regt SWBNote: Sorry impossible to move King's at present. R Grant Capt for Col Westmacott (CO 2nd Worcesters). CMG Received. 2.15 pm'.