Monday 1st
October 1917
23rd
Division, just north of the Menin Road, was again attacked today, this time the
enemy being supported by the strafing of machine-guns from low-flying aircraft.
69th Brigade received the attack and the enemy managed an advance of about 150
yards before being stopped. Three other attacks were made during the day but
these were each seen-off by the defenders.
Two more
divisions came under attack through the day. 7th Division is in the sector
including the northern parts of Polygon Wood, which it took over from 4th
Australian Division. Two attacks were made on them during the day, but without
success for the attackers. 21st Division are on 7th Division’s right flank on
the eastern fringes of Polygon Wood. The enemy seemed interested in retaking
Glencorse Wood, now well behind the lines, penetrating as far as Black Watch
Corner as the Leicestershire Regiment was driven back at one point, but we understand
that the line has been retaken and stabilised.
Elsewhere the
2nd Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment, are back in the front line near
Hollebeke. Their dispositions are as shown on the map above. 8th Battalion,
Bedfordshire Regiment are near Lens and had an unusual experience today. At
around three o’clock this evening, three Germans were captured. These were not,
as one might expect, men from the trenches opposite but three prisoners-of-war who
had escaped from a cage at Dieppe and had made it all the way back nearly to No
Man’s Land.
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