Phifer's brigade on the left met with better success, driving back Davies's left flank and entering the town.

At 2:20 a.m. the brigade had gained Jerk House and met the 5th Australian Division to the north.

The right brigade met little resistance but was briefly held up crossing the Steenbeek.

Several men deserted rather than embark; in the end, the brigade did not meet the enemy, which had fled.

The next day the brigade met heavy resistance just beyond Goustranville, on the Dives Canal and at Dozulé train station.

The left brigade met snipers in Zonnebeke and then more fire from a large number of machine-guns in Daisy Wood.

The brigade often met sporadic resistance and had to deal with disarming the many explosives attached to the infrastructure.

On October 13th Mahon's brigade met with a sharp resistance, and lost ten killed and twenty-nine wounded.

Three miles (5 km) west of town, about 7:30 a.m., Heth's two brigades met light resistance from cavalry vedettes and deployed into line.

The Confederate brigades met stiff resistance in sometimes hand-to-hand combat.