 Upon hearing of the losses to the 2 / 5th Infantry Battalion , Brigade Major G. H. Brock sent Captain J. R. Savige 's A Company of the 2 / 7th Infantry Battalion to take " The Triangle " . Savige gathered his platoons and , with fire support from machine guns , attacked the objective , 3 @,@ 000 yards ( 2 @,@ 700 m ) away . The company captured eight field guns , many machine @-@ guns and nearly 200 prisoners on the way , but casualties and the need to detach soldiers as prisoner escorts left him with only 45 men at the end of the day . 
