face of the redoubt and then been repulsed, during an attempt rush the redoubt. By another rush on the south-eastern corner, by IR 180 had failed and more piecemeal attacks from all round the redoubt were driven off, with many casualties. Messages were sent back to the 26th Division headquarters for a bombardment and at the divisional artillery began to fire on the redoubt, from the north-east to the south-east for one hour. The German infantry attacked again, supported by two battalions of IR 185, which had arrived from reserve at Beugny at about and attacked from Stuff and redoubts. In costly hand-to-hand fighting, the Germans recaptured the redoubt in about thirty minutes, finding it strewn with about dead. By midnight the ridge had been re-occupied and two more battalions of IR 180 had arrived and moved to the and the redoubt, available to reinforce the front line from Thiepval to the Ancre. 3 September The Reserve Army kept up a continuous bombardment on the Thiepval–St Pierre Divion area after 1 July, which reduced the German field defences to wreckage and the defenders dispersed among shell-holes and the surviving dug-outs. On 3 September, the British attacked along the Ancre river despite poor weather, to gain strictly limited objectives in the Anzac and II Corps sectors, east of Thiepval. On the left of II Corps, the 49th (West Riding) Division (Brigadier-General Goring-Jones), was to capture two lines of trenches on a front. The infantry attack began at from the Hamel–Thiepval road behind a creeping barrage, as the heavy artillery bombarded positions to the south-east, Redoubt and the Strasburg Line. Few casualties were suffered during the advance over no man's land and the two 147th Brigade battalions took the German front line and then reached the support trench. Direction was lost and one battalion missed the Pope's Nose salient; isolated groups of Germans held out in parts the front line. Machine-gun fire from III Battalion, IR 66 of the 52nd Division, which had just relieved III Battalion, IR 180 at Redoubt and the Strasburg Line, swept the British attackers and then both battalions counter-attacked with bombing parties from both battalions. The 146th Brigade on the left, was caught by machine-gun fire from the Pope's Nose and the right-hand battalion failed to reach the German front trench. The left-hand battalion reached the front trench but was not able to reach the support trench.