at that the 36th Division was across Auwärter Trench and the Thiepval–Grandcourt road facing east. Orders had been issued but contact had been lost with Group 1, Group 3 was still invisible and no reserves remained to counter-attack Redoubt. Parties had been sent out to find the I and III battalions of BRIR 8 and reinforcements were requested. The three recruit companies of IR 180 advanced in lines, from Grandcourt, along the lower slopes of the ridge, to the and then began to bomb up the line towards Redoubt. The British troops in were overrun and captured or killed. In the centre, the counter-attack began from (Stuff Redoubt), with three companies of BRIR 8 but was promptly engaged by British artillery and forced under cover. The advance was continued along , which led from Courcelette to Thepval and then moved into the open opposite the south-eastern corner of Redoubt. The fourth company of the battalion had been intended to move along , so joined the other three companies. By troops in the original front line near St Pierre Divion, had bombed southwards and recovered some of the captured front line. The advance up the had reached the north face of the redoubt and then been repulsed. By another rush on the south-eastern corner by IR 180 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 (Goat) 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 Hansa Line and the redoubt, available to reinforce the front line from Thiepval to the Ancre. Troops were sent forward by the 52nd Reserve Infantry Brigade; I Battalion, IR 185 stayed in Stuff Redoubt as a reserve and then took over the second position south of Grandcourt and the II Battalion IR 185 took over from Stuff Redoubt to sector IV. As II Battalion, BRIR 8 arrived, the troops