The AIF 2nd Division relieved the AIF 5th Division, with the 6th Brigade relieving 14th Brigade. The 22nd Battalion having spent a month of resting and refitting at Bouzincourt entrained at Varennes for Bapaume, and then marched to Beaulencourt where it formed part of the Divisional Reserve for the I Anzac Corps in the front area.
Following the Twenty-Second 