The History of the Royal Gloucestershire Hussars Yeomanry, 1898-1922: The Great Cavalry Campaign in PalestineP. Allan, 1923 - 336 pages |
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2nd Lieut 5th Mounted Brigade 9th Hodson's Horse A. H. S. Howard A. J. Palmer A.L.H. Brigade advance aeroplanes Aleppo Allenby Anzac Mounted Division April Arab Army arrived attack August Australian Australian Mounted Division battery Beersheba bivouac British C. E. Turner camels camp Capt captured casualties Chocolate Hill column command Corpl Damascus Deraa Desert Mounted Corps duty El Arish enemy enemy's Es Salt fighting fire force front Gallipoli Gaza German Glosters Hill Hotchkiss gun Hussars infantry Jerusalem Jordan Valley Lce.-Corpl Lieut.-Col machine guns Major A. J. miles morning mounted troops mules Nazareth night November October officers outpost line patrol position prisoners Qatia R. M. Yorke R. P. Sandeman railway ranks reconnaissance regiment regiment moved rifle right flank road Romani Royal Gloucestershire Hussars September Sergt Squadron strength took town trenches Turkish Turks W. H. Playne Wadi Worcester wounded Yeomanry
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Page 214 - And David longed, and said, Oh that one would give me drink of the water of the well of Beth-lehem, which is by the gate! And the three mighty men brake through the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Beth-lehem, that was by the gate, and took it, and brought it to David: nevertheless he would not drink thereof, but poured it out unto the Lord.
Page 184 - In fifteen days our force had advanced sixty miles on its right and about forty on its left. It had driven a Turkish army of nine infantry divisions and one cavalry division out of a position in which it had been entrenched for six months, and had pursued it, giving battle whenever it attempted to stand, and inflicting on it losses amounting, probably, to nearly two-thirds of the enemy's original effectives. Over g,000 prisoners, about 80 guns, more than 100 machine guns and very large quantities...
Page 214 - And said, My God forbid it me, that I should do this thing : shall I drink the blood of these men that have put their lives in jeopardy? for with thejeopardy of their lives they brought it.
Page 70 - English blood running in their veins. Such superb martial spectacles are rare in modern war. Ordinarily it should always be possible to bring up reserves under some sort of cover from shrapnel fire. Here, for a mile and a half, there was nothing to conceal a mouse, much less some of the most stalwart soldiers England has ever sent from her shores. Despite the critical events in other parts of the field, I could hardly take my glasses from the yeomen. They moved like men marching on parade. Here and...
Page 260 - Army were in full retreat through the hills of Samaria, whose exits were already in the hands of my cavalry. In the second phase the fruits of this success were reaped. The Infantry, pressing- relentlessly on the heels of the re-treating enemy, drove him Into the arms of my cavalry, with the result that practically the whole of the Seventh and Eighth Turkish Armies were captured, with their guns and transport.
Page 170 - Wadi Sheria to Wadi Union ; and the troops on the left were close to Hareira Redoubt, which was still occupied by the enemy. This attack was a fine performance, the troops advancing...
Page 149 - I had decided to strike the main blow against the left flank of the main Turkish position, Hareira and Sheria. The capture of Beersheba was a necessary preliminary to this operation, in order to secure the water supplies at that place and to give room for the deployment of the attacking force on the high ground to the north and north-west of Beersheba, from which direction I intended to attack the Hareira-Sheria line.
Page 149 - Beersheba being about 30 miles ; but his lateral communications were good, and any threatened point of the line could be very quickly reinforced. My force was extended on a front of 22 miles, from the sea, opposite Gaza, to Gamli. Owing to lack of water...
Page 204 - The ascent on . the far side was steeply terraced. Men had alternately to hoist and pull each other up, under fire, and finally to expel the enemy from the summits in hand-to-hand fighting.
Page 251 - I was anxious to gain touch with the Arab Forces east of the Dead Sea, but the experience gained in the raids which I had undertaken against Amman and Es Salt in March and May had proved that the communications of a force in the hills of Moab were liable to interruption as long as the enemy was able to transfer troops from the west to the east bank of the Jordan. This he was in a position to do, as he controlled the crossing at Jisr ed Damieh.