Further to the south, Reserve Infantry regiments of the 207th Division, attacked Hollebeke through thick fog and captured the village despite many casualties, taking at least Most of the British were in captured pillboxes and blockhouses, which had to be attacked one by one and at three signal flares were fired to indicate success. The Germans later abandoned Hollebeke and reoccupied the old "A line", then withdrew to their start line, because of the severity of British counter-attacks and artillery-fire. left the front-line ragged, with a gap between regiments which the British tried to exploit with attacks and counter-attacks, before the bigger British effort of 10 August against the Gheluvelt Plateau.