Later in the day, two counter-attacks were repulsed and half of the 20th (NSW) Battalion attacked the Maze at but was stopped by machine-gun fire. At midnight, troops from the 1/4th and 1/5th Northumberland attacked on the opposite flank but were forced back. On 15 November, the remnants of the 1/5th and 19th (NSW) battalions that had met were isolated in part of Gird Trench with a Lewis gun at either end. Rifle ammunition was used to feed the Lewis guns that engaged frequent German attacks. German , supported by artillery around Bapaume, made a determined attack from both ends of Gird Trench and the British and Australians were relieved at dawn by the 28th Battalion and two companies of the 1/4th East Yorkshire. Opposite the French Sixth Army, Operation Hanover (), a plan to recapture the fringe of St Pierre Vaast wood on 15 November, succeeded but other attacks to recapture the Saillisels failed and the Germans occupied shell hole positions on the outskirts.