This view looks back along the Thiepval spur to the chalk quarry known as the Liepzig Redoubt. This underground fortress, with its 'bakery, boudoir and deep shelters', had fallen to the 17th Highland Light Infantry on July 1st by dint of their having crawled to with 30yds of the British barrage, rushing the position as the guns lifted. However, support troops coming up behind them fell to the now very active German machine guns further back. A fierce fight developed, but at the end of the day the British had hung tenuously onto the quarry. Further advances were frustrated by machine guns in the 'Wonderwork' Redoubt further back on the spur, and intact wire in front of the Hindenberg Trench, which crossed the vantage point in this photograph. Although the British inched their way further along the spur during the following weeks, there was to be no significant progress here until the assault on Thiepval in September.