The adjutant
of 6th Bedfords, attached to 34th Division and currently at Bazentin-le-Petit,
that they were involved last night in fighting which claimed one officer and
eight other ranks killed, twenty five other ranks missing and two officers and
forty nine other ranks wounded.
At Guillemont
another attack was made this morning at 4.20. It was met with withering
machine-gun fire. An attack south of the railway line was also made by 2nd
Division and also failed. Sadly, the men of the 2nd Division who reached Guillemont
Station yesterday and those of 55th Division who got into Guillemont near the
quarry on the western side of the
village have been killed or captured. I am told parties could be seen through
field glasses, being marched away by the Germans.
The 4th
Australian Division attacked north-west from Pozières today, along the ridge. The
fighting was intense but the German trench known as Park Lane was captured.
This is important as it defends a place called Mouquet Farm, which the Germans
still hold.
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