The performance of the 47th Division was considered a failure, because High Wood was only the first objective. In four days of fighting, the division had suffered over and the 141st Brigade was so depleted that after the occupation of the wood, it was reorganised into a composite battalion. The divisional commander Major-General Charles Barter had urged Pulteney the III Corps commander, to cancel the attempt to use tanks in the wood as a substitute for artillery but had been over-ruled. The failure of the tanks was considered by the 47th Division to have been the main cause of the large number of casualties in the division but Barter was sacked on 28 September, for "wanton waste of men".