1/7th Durham Light Infantry remained just behind the front line preparing tramways across flooded shell-holes, and then built huts near Mametz Wood for the battalion, while the Lewis gun detachment and the band built a new divisional headquarters at Sabot Copse. The work was finished on 3 November and the battalion rested for one day before the 50th Division made a new attack on the Butte de Warlencourt on 5 November (celebrated as Inkermann Day by the DLI). 151st Bde and two battalions of 149th Bde made the attack, with B Company 1/7th DLI attached to 1/8th DLI in the right sector in 'Hexham Road' and C Company and a platoon of D Company to 1/9th DLI on the left in 'Abbaye Trench'. The men went forward in appalling conditions. B Company's task was to move overland and then extend 'Pioneer Alley' from 'Maxwell Trench' to 'Gird Trench' (the German front line), while C Company was to move up a communication trench and then continue 'Tail Trench' to reach 'Butte Trench' in front of Gird Trench. The companies suffered casualties from shellfire even before setting off. The left attack occupied the Butte de Warlencourt and passed beyond it, but the right attack was held p by machine gun fire and the German counter-barrage. B Company could do little, but C Company tried to link up with the parties on the butte. However, German counter-attacks drove the whole attack back to its starting point. The two companies lost 9 killed and 22 wounded.