The III Corps divisions lost Earnings_and_losses more than and failed Earnings_and_losses to capture Conquering La Boisselle or Ovillers , gaining Earnings_and_losses only small footholds near the boundary with XV Corps to the south and at , after the Lochnagar mine explosion Catastrophe had destroyed Destroying some of the defences of Reserve Infantry Regiment 110 .

After the relief Assistance of the South Africans the battle Hostile_encounter for the wood continued until the end Process_end of August , when the last German footholds were captured Conquering by the 43rd Brigade of the 14th ( Light ) Division on 27 August .

They made small footholds at Adgrado and Redipuglia on the Karst Plateau south of Gorizia but were unable to do much else .