The British Campaign in France and Flanders, 1917Doyle, Arthur Conan
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The British Campaign in France and Flanders, 1917
Doyle, Arthur Conan
World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns -- Western Front
To the right of the Fifth Corps the Australians pursued their
victorious career, going to their full limit, which entailed the
possession of the whole of Polygon Wood. The Fourth and Fifth
Divisions were now in the battle line. Pushing onwards they crossed
the road which connects Bacelaer with Zonnebeke, and established
themselves {197} firmly on the farther side south of Zonnebeke. Some
300 prisoners with a number of machine-guns were taken in this fine
advance. The pressure upon the Australians was especially heavy upon
the right flank of the Fifth Australian Division, since the left of
the Thirty-third Division had been driven in, as already described,
by the very heavy German attacks upon September 25, so that the
Victorians of the 15th Australian Brigade at the south end of the
line started with their flank exposed. They were in close touch
throughout with the 19th Brigade of the British Division, and the 2nd
Welsh Fusiliers found themselves intermingled with the Victorians in
the advance, with whom they co-operated in the capture of Jut Farm.
It was a fine feat for the Victorians to advance at all under such
circumstances, for as they went forward they had continually to throw
out a defensive flank, since the Germans had re-occupied many of the
trenches and Mebus, from which they had been ejected upon the 20th.
This strip of ground remained for a time with the Germans, but the
Thirty-third Division had also advanced upon the right of it, so that
it was left as a wedge protruding into the British position. Cameron
House was taken at the joining point of the two divisions, and
gradually the whole of the lost ground was re-absorbed.
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