"A well known landmark standing in the front line near Avion." "Lone tree, Saskatoon Road Avion", 28 June 1917. Photo from the regimental history. From the Regimental History, pages 64, 65: "But the determined valour of the men they led was amply witnessed to when the breaking light of June 28th revealed the slaughtered and vanquished foe in Avion trench. For the Kilties had swept through the darkness into that trench with irresistible force. The bayonet, the bomb and the clubbed rifle did their work. The objective was cleared and the morning found 72nd men in complete possession. It was one of the cleanest-cut, intensest little operations in the Battalion's history. During the morning following, Saskatoon road, a sunken thoroughfare full of deep dugouts, paralleling and some 250 yards in advance of Avion trench was taken by this company, while at 6 p.m., in conjunction with flanking units, these indefatigables pushed on and cleared the enemy from the southern purlieu of the Eleu trenches on the south-eastern slope of the Eleu spur. On the morning of the 29th the Battalion held these positions, looking over the floods of the Souchez at the serried pitheads and slag-heaps of Lens. It was a position the 72nd was destined to hold at short intervals throughout many long months. It is significant to note that the German official communique, in dealing with the Canadian attacks at this time, stated that "near Avion the attack was led by specially picked assaulting troops."