Two battalions of the West Yorkshire Regiment that didn't know the delaying of the attack were severely touched.

On 11 April 1917, only eleven Mark II tanks supported the troops for another assault.

Harry Murray took part in the battle where his friend Percy Black is killed.

Part of the attacking force was exposed to machine guns and many soldiers were killed in No man's land.

At the end of the battle, the Allies retained a small part of the Hindenburg Line but it was of no tactical significance.