The Warwickshire Yeomanry in the Great WarW.H. Smith, 1922 - 222 pages |
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2nd in command 2nd Mounted Division 2nd-Lieut 3rd Line 5th Mounted Brigade 60th Division Adjt Adjutant advance Alan-Williams Alexandria Anzac Anzac Mounted Division April Arish Army arrived attack August Australian Mounted Division Battalion Battle of Gaza Beersheba Belah Brig.-Gen camp Capt captured Cavalry Cheape Chocolate Hill Colonel Company December Desert Mounted Corps despatches Died of wounds Drake Egypt El Arish enemy enemy's fighting flank France gallant gallantry Gallipoli Gaza Gray-Cheape heavy fire Infantry Jerusalem joined Joynson Kantara Katia L/Corp Leasowe Castle Lieut Lieut.-Col M.G. Batt machine guns Major Mills March miles Mounted Troops moved Nature of Casualty night November occupied October Officers operations ordered Palestine position Prankerd prisoners Rafa Regiment retired returned ridge Romani sent Sept September Sergt Sharia shell Smith-Ryland Squadron Suvla Bay Tidworth took trenches Turkish Turks Valintine Warwick Yeomanry Warwickshire Yeomanry Wayfarer Wheatley Wight-Boycott Worcester Yeomanry Worcesters
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Page 28 - 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 there a shell would take toll of a...
Page 28 - The advance of these English Yeomen was a sight calculated to send a thrill of pride through anyone with a drop of 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...
Page 146 - In the passes lower down, and the conquest of the plateau would then have been slow, costly, and precarious. As it was, positions had been won from which the final attack could be prepared and delivered with good prospects of success. 20. By Dec. 4 all reliefs were complete, and a line was held from Kustul by the Neby Samwil Ridge, Beit Izza, and Beit Dukka, to Beit ur el Tahta. During this period attacks by the enemy along the whole line led to severe local fightIng. On Nov. 25...
Page 146 - Judaean range consists of a series of spurs running east and west, and separated from one another by narrow valleys. These spurs are steep, bare, and stony for the most part, and in places precipitous. Between the foot of the spur of the main range and the coastal plain is the low range known as the Shephelah.
Page 146 - Wad (two and a half miles east of Latron) and Saris. this road passes through a narrow defile, and it had been damaged by the Turks in several places. The other roads were mere tracks on the side of the hill or up the stony beds of wadis, and were impracticable for wheeled transport without improvement. Throughout these hills the water supply was scanty without development.
Page 83 - ... The troops, admirably supported by the artillery, advanced with great gallantry, and at 4.45 pm the New Zealand Mounted Rifles captured the redoubt with brilliant dash, covering the last 800 yards in two rushes, supported by machine-gun fire. By this achievement they were able to take the lower lying works in reverse, and these soon fell to the Camel Corps, the Yeomanry, and the Australian Light Horse. By 5.30 pm all organized resistance was over, and the enemy's position with all its garrison...
Page 146 - ... infantry by artillery fire from guns placed in positions along the main road. Our artillery, from lack of roads, could not be brought up to give adequate support to our infantry. Both attacks failed, and it was evident that a period of preparation and organization would be necessary before an attack could be delivered in sufficient strength to drive the enemy from his positions west of the road.
Page 115 - Yeomanry, finely supported by their artillery, never gave them time to recover. The charge of the Australian Light Horse completed their defeat. A very strong position was thus taken with slight loss, and the Turkish detachment at Beersheba almost completely put out of action.
Page 115 - The actual date of the attack at Gaza had been left open till the result of the attack at Beersheba was known, as it was intended that the former attack, which was designed to draw hostile reserves...
Page 30 - But when the report came in somo doubt was felt as to its accuracy, and a reconnaissance by staff officers showed that the knoll was a good way from Ismail Oglu Tepe, and that a strongly-held semicircle of Turkish trenches (the enemy having been heavily reinforced) still denied us access to...