WEST FRONT
ADVANCE IN BELGIUM
DIVISIONS MENTIONED IN
DESPATCHES
WEATHER STILL UNFAVOURABLE
UUS. AND N.Z. CABI.H ASSN. AND RIUTEB.)
LONDON; sth October
Sir Douglas Haig, in a supplementary report, states: —In the operations bj> tho British Second Army in Flanders on 29th September and subsequent days, the 9th, 29th, and 35th Divisions rendered distinguished service. In most unfavourable weather they advanced to a depth of over nine miles across difficult country, clearing tho whole range east and'southeast of Ypres, and taking a- prominent part in the capture by the "British troops of over 4000 prisoners and 100 guns. The 9th Division on the first day of the attack took Becleaere, fivo miles east of its starting point, and three days later reached Ledeghem. On the first day the 29th Division passed beyond Gheluvelt and caputred . jKruiaeecke, having advanced five miles along the Menin-road. On its right the 35th Division also passed far beyond our old positions of 1917 and took Zandvoorde.
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Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 85, 7 October 1918, Page 7
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161WEST FRONT Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 85, 7 October 1918, Page 7
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