Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A ranar 30 ga Oktoba Blues suna aiki a yankin kusa da ƙauyen Zanvoorde lokacin da Jamusawa suka kai hari. A ranar 20 ga watan Nuwamba, Rundunar Sojojin Sojoji ta haɗu da Edmund Allenby's Division a Ypres Salient, wani layi na gaba wanda ya tafi gabashin Zonnebeke, a kusa da Polygon Wood, a kan Menin Road
(hanyar daga Ypres zuwa Menin) sannan yammacin Zanvoorde zuwa Wytchaete da Messines. Daga inda rukunin rukunin (Life Guards 1 da 2) suka yi adawa da wani hari a ranar 31 ga Oktoba. An tura brigade na sojan doki na Faransa zuwa gabas na Hooge a matsayin mai ba da izini don tallafawa 7th Cavalry Brigade a karfe 5 na yamma. An fara aikin ne a ranar 25 ga Oktoba lokacin da Blues ya shirya wani aiki mai ban tsoro ya rufe koma baya na 20th Infantry brigade, a kan doki. Sun yi tsere don su jawo harin bindigogin Jamus. A ranar 21 ga Nuwamba an tura Royal Horse Guards zuwa Brigade na 8, wanda aka kafa ranar da ta gabata. A ranar 26 ga Disamba, 1914, Sir Douglas Haig, wani jami'in sojan doki, ya karbi umurnin Sojojin Soji na 1.