 Following the attack on Pozières the Australians were called upon to attack Mouquet Farm in August . All three divisions of I Anzac Corps were committed in an effort to force a breach in the German lines behind Thiepval , to the north of Pozières . The task of the initial advance fell to the 4th Division on 10 August , which had already suffered 1 @,@ 000 casualties resisting the final German counter @-@ attack , but in the ensuing battle it would lose a further three times that number as the Australians once again suffered at the hands of the German artillery , finding themselves squeezed into a frontage of less than 1 @.@ 5 kilometres ( 0 @.@ 93 mi ) against which the Germans were able to concentrate the weight of their defence . Three more attacks were made over the course of the next three weeks as the Australians fought their way across the shell @-@ pocked countryside to the farm , only to be forced out again shortly after by the concentration of German artillery . The other two divisions of I Anzac fared only slightly better in these attacks and at the end of the engagement , Australian casualties at Mouquet Farm totalled 6 @,@ 300 men . 
