The Germans pressed their counterattack, and soon advanced to the edge of Monchy-le-Preux capturing the trenches from which the 1st Essex and the Newfoundlanders had launched their attack.

After 4 hours they were able to send one of the men several kilometres to the rear to apprise the British of the situation passing on information that allowed for artillery support forward of their position on the berm.

The heroic action of the "Monchy Ten" Newfoundland men - who at the outset of their advance to hold the lines doubted that they would survive 15 minutes, let alone 11 hours - stopped British planners from suffering a significant embarrassment.

Even if the advance of the Essex Men and Newfoundlanders had been successful in capturing the high ground and the new line had been reinforced with reserves to defend the gain, they would have been in a salient, surrounded on three sides by the enemy and perilously susceptible to counter-attack.

The poor planning was further illustrated in the fact that reserves had not been brought forward to hold the village against the German counter-attack that came as the British attack collapsed.

Similar to the others, the caribou faces in the direction from which the Battalion withstood the German attack, a point known at the time as Infantry Hill.