Wednesday 3rd
October 1917
5th Division,
having relieved 23rd Division just north of the Menin Road, was attacked by the
enemy today, as was 37th Division just south of the road. As far as we can tell
both these attacks have been failures.
1st Battalion,
Bedfordshire Regiment has reached the Ypres Salient. It is moving towards a
position on the ridge between Tor Top and Stirling Castle. As reserve to the rest 5th Division
it was not involved in repulsing the German attack. Nor was 6th Battalion
involved in repulsing the enemy attack on 37th Division as it is resting,
having preceded the rest of its division in the front line by five days.
63rd (Royal
Naval) Division, including the 4th Bedfords, is also evidently coming to the
party. The Battalion is currently a Zermezeele near Kassel, close to the
Belgian border.
In far-away
Palestine yesterday, two of the 1st/5th Battalion snipers captured a Turkish
prisoner who had been picking grapes just outside the enemy trenches near The
Orchard, south-west of Gaza.
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