In the 20th Division area two battalions of the 60th Brigade captured Rainbow Trench, shot at German troops who ran away and pressed on to Misty Trench to gain touch with the 1/7th Middlesex on the right and the 61st Brigade on the left, which had reached its objective east of Gueudecourt, after the 7th KOYLI and the 12th King's Liverpool encountered a line of Germans advancing from Rainbow Trench to surrender. The battalions occupied Rainbow Trench and kept going to to the south-east corner of Cloudy Trench. The 12th Division (Major-General A. B. Scott) on the right of XV Corps had not moved forward, so a defensive flank was formed on the left and a new trench (Shine Trench) dug from Cloudy Trench to the Beaulencourt road. About of Rainbow Trench south-east of the road was still held by the Germans, who counter-attacked from Beaulencourt at about and were repulsed by small-arms fire.