25 September dawned bright and cloudless, with a ground haze but reports from contact patrol observers were notably accurate, as the infantry advanced to their objectives on the Fourth Army front, from Morval to Gueudecourt and around Flers.
It is at Morval; for it is there that the fire of lighter shells is more intense-it is there that the heavier shells are levelling the obstacles-it is there, too, over Morval, that the B.E.'s (the eyes of the Army) are circling.