On 7 October, the 4th Army headquarters rescinded the policy of a reinforced front defence zone, to avoid another disaster like 4 October. [46][47], The Guards Division was to cross the Broembeek and close up to Houthoulst Forest, on a front from the Ypres–Staden railway, to the junction with the French army near Craonne Farm. The following step would be a deeper advance, with provision made for exploitation.

[73], The 66th (2nd East Lancashire) Division repulsed a counter-attack on 10 October. Heavy rain fell on 7 and 8 October and severely hampered air operations and no artillery observation was achieved by the British from 5–9 October.

The stork motif is also shown on the side of the column, as is a relief carving of Guynemer in profile. The left brigade advanced to the right of Bear Copse, which was specially bombarded by Stokes mortars, which induced the German garrison to surrender. A counter-attack was defeated at noon and then a retirement of 200 yd (180 m) was made, in the face of another counter-attack later in the afternoon; German infantry left the area vacant. The advance to the second objective found much reduced German resistance and the final objective 700 yd (640 m) further on was reached. This is a large cemetery, with nearly 7,500 burials and an astonishing 6,321 of these are unidentified. More artillery was to be used against British artillery to protect the Eingreifdivisionen as they advanced.

Royal Field Artillery who died on 10/10/1920 UNITED KINGDOM BOOK OF REMEMBRANCE United Kingdom' XIV Corps was to advance to the south edge of Houthoulst Forest with the 4th, 29th and Guards divisions, as the French First Army conformed on its left.

I can send Sandra a scan of a map showing both places, but not around that date. On 7 October Haig cancelled the afternoon attack to the blue line due to the wet weather. [45], Fire from two German pillboxes stopped the advance and a German counter-attack began from the pillboxes.

[29] Within 30 minutes, green flares on the objective (blue line) showed that it had been captured.

Sandra send me you address to morse.steve@btinternet.com and I will scan what I have. Two brigades each from 66th (2nd East Lancashire) Division and the 49th (West Riding) Division, assembled behind Frezenberg and Potijze, about 2.5 mi (4.0 km) from the jumping off line. Hi I am looking for anyone who has a scan of a trench map for 9 october 1917 or about the time of the battle poelcapelle. Sketch map of positions at Poelcappelle, 20th September 1917. Map showing wet areas near Passchendaele village, blue shading marks waterlogging near Passchendaele, which began with the rains of early October, Manhandling an 18-pounder field gun through mud. The barrage came down prompt at 5:30 a.m. and after four minutes began to creep forward at a rate of 100 yd (91 m) in eight minutes. [56] The division moved forward on approach routes which were under an "enormous" weight of fire and managed to regain some captured ground. The ground was consolidated and reinforcements were brought up between Pheasant Farm and Retour Crossroads. The field artillery of II Anzac Corps, was not able to move forward as planned from west of the Steenbeek to the Zonnebeke–Winnipeg road.