Complex sentence: Bean 1941, p.274 It was now 07:00 and the Australians, ignoring their orders to capture the lower slopes of Hill 971, were digging in on Russell's Top and Plugge's Plateau, further south they were just reaching the top of 400 Plateau.
Split into simpler sentences: Bean 1941, p.274 It was now 07:00 and the Australians, ignoring their orders to capture the lower slopes of Hill 971, were instead digging in on Russell's Top and Plugge's Plateau. Further south they were just reaching the top of 400 Plateau.