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[10.6.17]
5.10 pm. 9th A.M.G. Coy. returned to the command of G.O.C. 9th A.I.Bde.
Div. advised "Capture LA POTTERIES system and establish 8 new posts"
7.15 pm. Bde Order 70 issued. Zero hour 11 pm for the night 11th June.
10.30 pm. Heavy enemy artillery barrage along the whole Bde front.
11.21 pm. Enemy fire slackened.
11.6.17
12.25 am. Assault party of 36th Bn left our trenches as the enemy dropped his barrage.
1.50 am. No. 2 post established at second attempt. 35th Bn now taking over.
2.10 am. Fuze Cot post established and moppers up now now returning from it.
4.0 am. Post Nos. 4, 5, and 6 appear to have been established. 4 unwounded prisoners taken and 1 M.G. besides material captured.
5.55 am. Reported by C.O. 33rd Bn that No. 1 post withdrawn at 3.15 am.
7.40 am. 1 Bn of the New Zealand Bde placed at the disposal of G.O.C.9th A.I. Bde. One Coy given to each Bn. in front line garrison. One Coy employed on salvage and one Coy on burials.
10.45 am. Div. instructed "Send out strong patrols to Knoll 30 as escort to [F.O.O.?]" [Forward Observation Officer]
4.45 pm. Div. instructed "Establish and maintain advance report centre at Thatched Cot."
5.5 pm. Patrol from 35th Bn. went out to a point 200 yds east of Knoll 30 and found it strongly occupied and withdrew to our line of posts at 5.55 pm.
11.55 pm. Party of 1 Officer and 25 O/R from 35th Bn. re-established No. 1 post without opposition. 35th Bn reported 77 mm gun captured at No. 2 post with much ammunition. Relief of 36th Bn by 34th Bn as per Bde Order 71 cancelled.
12.6.17
Corps Mounted Troops established posts on the front in early morning.
Noon. Patrol of 35th Bn went out to old building at V.16 c 3.7 without meeting any enemy. N.Z. burial party have been working in the enemy lines south of Mine Crater. No enemy opposition encountered except an occasional sniper. During the night the 2nd N.Z. Inf. Bde. relieved the 9th A.I.Bde as per Bde Order 72.
13.6.17
6 am. G.O.C. 2nd N.Z. Bde assumed command of the sector, 9th A.I.Bde moved to billets and bivouac as follows:- B.H.Q., S.18 c 5.5., 33rd Bn S. 18 a 6.1, 34th Bn S.18 c 7.4, 35th Bn T. 19 a 8.8., 9th A.M.C. Coy & 9th T.M. Bty T.19 b 3.3.
Location of H.Q. at nightfall - WATERLOO CAMP S.18 c 5.5.