Complex sentence: By 09.00 the Indian troops were pushing forward into the hills behind the village which overlooked the main road from the west whilst the village of Monkelbe, on the river on the far left flank of the advance had been secured by 11.30.
Split into simpler sentences: By 09.00 the Indian troops were pushing forward into the hills behind the village which overlooked the main road from the west. On the river on the far left flank of the advance the village of Monkelbe had been secured by 11.30.