Item 01: Sir Charles Rosenthal diary, 25 September 1914-31 December 1918 - Page 473
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with us. The G.S.O. 1 of 46 Div. & G.S.O. 2 of 50th Div. have mutually arranged with us as to barrage time table & to operations generally. During the day & night the quarry system in which our D.H.Q. are situated intermittently shelled by H.V. gun causing a few casualties to personnel & horses 1 car destroyed & all the others excepting my own damaged.
Thursday 3rd October
At 6.5 a.m. this morning 5th Bgde. on right & 7th Bgde. on left attacked the Beaurevoir line from immediately East of Gouy to Wiancourt, a total of 6500 yards with village of Beaurevoir as their objective. Tanks were to assist, but of the 8 heavy allotted to each Bde. front only four crossed the front line & only 1 on each front succeeded in making a good penetration. 8 Whippets allotted to assist in cleaning up Beaurevoir ditched themselves in the Beaurevoir line. Both Brigades had fighting & as a consequence the village of Beaurevoir was not reached our line at nightfall being on the western face of the village, while the whole of the allotted trench system was thoroughly cleaned up.
Towards evening two battalions of the 6th Bde. reinforced the line of the 5th Bde. on the right. Our casualties for the day were about 675 for the day while prisoners captured total of over 1200 & in addition over 800 dead Boche lie on the field of battle. Arrangements are complete for a Brigade of the 25th Div. to relieve a Brigade sector to-night & to attack Beaurevoir early to-morrow morning. In conformity with this attack this Division is to swing up into left flank. General Charles G.O.C. 25th Div. called & I agreed to his