63rd (RN) Division to advance from Mœuvres and secure the first and second objectives for XVII Corps before the 57th (2nd West Lancashire) Division passed through to capture the third objective. The artillery available included four divisional and four army field brigades: the 18-pounders of seven of these fired the creeping barrage and the eighth a Smoke screen, while the 4.5-inch howitzers fired a standing barrage on chosen targets and then advanced in front of the creeping barrage. The division's infantry successfully crossed the Canal du Nord and reached the first objective astride the Hindenburg Support Line. Here they were held up by machine gun fire from a sugar factory, and a request for an artillery 'crash' on it at first received no answer. Fresh orders then arrived for an hour's bombardment from 13.15 followed by a second creeping barrage. The second attack was immediately successful until held up at Anneux and Graincourt-lès-Havrincourt (the second objectives), where another barrage was fired to help the 57th Division onto the final objectives. Second Battle of Cambrai (8 October) Capture of Niergnies (8 October) Battle of the Selle (20 October) – the 63rd (RN) Divisional artillery supported the 42nd (East Lancashire) Division Passage of the Grande Honnelle (7 November) – the division crossed and advanced rapidly behind a barrage to secure Audregnies and mop up the Bois d'Audregnies. When the Armistice with Germany came into force on 11 November, the 63rd (RN) Division had advanced as far as Harveng near Mons. After the Armistice, the division moved back to Valenciennes, where key personnel such as miners left for early demobilisation. The whole division was disbanded in April 1919. Interwar The 3rd Northumbrian reformed and merged with the Northern Cyclist Battalion to form the 3rd (Northumbrian) Medium Brigade, RGA in February 1920. When the TF was reconstituted as the Territorial Army (TA) in 1921, the brigade and its batteries were renumbered: 55th (Northumbrian) Medium Brigade, RGA HQ at Drill Hall, The Green, Sunderland 217th (Durham) Medium Bty (Howitzer) at Drill Hall, The Green, Sunderland 218th (Durham) Medium Bty (Howitzer) at Drill Hall, Seaham Harbour 219th (Durham) Medium Bty (Howitzer) at the Armoury, West Hartlepool 220th (Durham) Medium Bty at Drill Hall, Seaham Harbour The unit continued to be attached to the 50th (Northumbrian) Divisional area as 'Army Troops'. In 1924, the Royal Field Artillery and Royal Garrison Artillery were subsumed into the Royal Artillery