diff --git a/Grid/cshift/Cshift.h b/Grid/cshift/Cshift.h
index 07ec8412..9150579c 100644
--- a/Grid/cshift/Cshift.h
+++ b/Grid/cshift/Cshift.h
@@ -49,4 +49,29 @@ Author: Peter Boyle <paboyle@ph.ed.ac.uk>
 #ifdef GRID_COMMS_SHMEM
 #include <Grid/cshift/Cshift_mpi.h> // uses same implementation of communicator
 #endif 
+
+NAMESPACE_BEGIN(Grid);
+
+template<typename Op, typename T1> 
+auto Cshift(const LatticeUnaryExpression<Op,T1> &expr,int dim,int shift)
+    -> Lattice<decltype(expr.op.func(eval(0, expr.arg1)))> 
+{
+  return Cshift(closure(expr),dim,shift);
+}
+template <class Op, class T1, class T2>
+auto Cshift(const LatticeBinaryExpression<Op,T1,T2> &expr,int dim,int shift)
+  -> Lattice<decltype(expr.op.func(eval(0, expr.arg1),eval(0, expr.arg2)))> 
+{
+  return Cshift(closure(expr),dim,shift);
+}
+template <class Op, class T1, class T2, class T3>
+auto Cshift(const LatticeTrinaryExpression<Op,T1,T2,T3> &expr,int dim,int shift)
+  -> Lattice<decltype(expr.op.func(eval(0, expr.arg1),
+				   eval(0, expr.arg2),
+				   eval(0, expr.arg3)))> 
+{
+  return Cshift(closure(expr),dim,shift);
+}
+NAMESPACE_END(Grid);
+
 #endif