 The division returned to the attack on 12 October, with the 2nd and 3rd Brigades.There was little to encourage the men as they waited overnight in a morass under steady rain.Shelled in their assembly area, some were shelled again by their own guns when the thin barrage opened at 5.25 a.m., and then they led off into a deluge of small-arms fire, speckled with geyser-like eruptions as shells exploded in the mud.