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In the Ravebeek valley in the 66th Division area, some of the wounded drowned in shell-holes, which had filled with rain. On 12 October an Australian officer found,
The slope .... was littered with dead, both theirs and ours.... Here I found about fifty men alive, of the Manchesters.... Some had been there four days already....
— Lieutenant W. G. Fisher
The next day he reported that
... some of the Manchesters were there yet, seven days wounded and not looked to.... Our men gave all their food and water away, but that was all they could do.
— Lieutenant W. G. Fisher (13 October)
The New Zealand Division found wounded of the 49th Division,
... famished and untended on the battlefield.... Those that could not be brought back were dressed in the muddy shell holes.... On the morning of the 12th many of these unfortunate men were still lying upon the battlefield, and not a few had meantime died of exposure in the wet and cold weather.... Even before the attack, dressing stations and regimental aid posts as well as the battlefield itself were crowded with the wounded of the 49th Division.
— Colonel H. Stewart
In 2014, Robert Perry wrote that Second Army casualties in the attack had been 1,253 in the 2nd Australian Division (I Anzac Corps) and about 5,700 men in the II Anzac Corps, 3,119 losses in the 66th Division and 2,585 casualties in the 49th Division. J. E. Edmonds, the British official historian, quoted from the German Official History, that German losses were very recht (considerable) and that the ordeal "bore no relation to the advantage obtained.". Calculations of German losses by Edmonds have been severely criticised ever since. In volume XIII of Der Weltkrieg (1942), the German official historians recorded 35,000 casualties, including 13,000 missing for the ten-day reporting period from 1–10 October. Subsequent operations
Main article: First Battle of Passchendaele
The 66th Division repulsed a counter-attack on 10 October. Numerous British divisional reliefs took place before 12 October and a dummy German raid was reported that morning. The First Battle of Passchendaele took place on 12 October. The attack took ground in the north but early gains around Passchendaele were mostly lost to German counter-attacks. The battle was a German defensive success, although costly to both sides. British attacks were postponed until the weather improved and communications behind the front had been restored. Two German divisions intended for Italy were diverted to Flanders, to replace "extraordinarily high" losses.
Victoria Cross
Corporal W. Clamp, 6th Green Howards.
Private F. G. Hancock, 4th Worcesters.
Sergeant J. Lister, 1st Lancashire Fusiliers.
Sergeant J. Molyneux, 2nd Royal Fusiliers.
Lance-Sergeant J. H. Rhodes, 3rd Grenadier Guards.
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