The 8th KORL spends the first part of the month in both skills and physical training.
The C.O. of the 1st King’s Dragoon Guards (Reggie’s own Regiment) watches the 8th KORL practice an attack on the 17th and, on the 18th, the battalion moves north to camp west of Ypres in preparation for an attack on the 26th.
The camp is not in a good state and the battalion spends time making it habitable.
The battalion is in position for the attack at 12.45 am on the 26th and has to wait a long 5 hours for zero hour.
The Battle of Polygon Wood was launched at 5.50am on the 26th September. The 8th KORL succeed in taking Tokio and Mühle Farms on the outskirts of Zonnebeke and hold on to those positions until relieved on the 29th.
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