On 28 September, the 53rd Brigade formed up for the attack, on tapes facing north-west from Trench, the left-hand battalion to capture the redoubt. The advance began at and easily captured Bulgar Trench. The Midway Line held out for longer but the area east of redoubt was approached by On the left, the 7th Queen's advance on the redoubt, drifted to the left but managed to get into the southern face of the redoubt and take fifty prisoners. The battalion also managed to take the south-west corner, then attempted to attack to the north but was stopped and established a barricade. By all of the south face had been captured and the troops were ordered to dig in. The capture of the south face of Redoubt was observed by the crews of RFC contact patrols and artillery observation aircraft directed artillery-fire, which destroyed 16 gun pits, damaged fifteen and destroyed nine ammunition pits. Poor weather restricted flying on 29 September but the next day was bright and low-flying sorties discovered that most of the Redoubt had been captured.