The area to the right (east) of Redoubt was attacked by the 53rd Brigade of the 18th (Eastern) Division during the Battle of Thiepval Ridge . The 8th Suffolks captured (Schwabian Trench) in a few minutes and after a ten-minute halt, advanced to Trench by meeting troops of the 54th Brigade north of Thiepval. The advance towards the redoubt was stopped after , by small arms fire from the front and flanks and the troops retired after dark. Attempts on the left to bomb forward during the evening also failed. The 54th Brigade was to capture the west end of Thiepval and advance about to Redoubt. The battalion on the right captured the east end of Thiepval and the left hand battalion managed to get halfway through the west end of the village. A third battalion sent forward as a reinforcement, was severely bombarded by German artillery as it moved forward and the survivors dug in with the leading battalions, just ahead of the village on the right; the attack on Redoubt was postponed.