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last an indefinite period & to get food when & where we can, so hope to capture some enemy dumps very soon.
6: Stand to at 3 a.m. standing by ready to move at 4 p.m., when we rode to the wadi Sharieh, taking over the trenches from the Yeomanry at midnight on outpost duty.
7: At daybreak our horses were brought up to us under heavy gun fire, as the Turks were making their last stand against the 74th & 53rd Div. who were the main attacking force on our left. The infantry got Abdul on the run & we gave chase, down the wadi to cut them off. Heaps of gun ammunition & scores of guns & wagons were left by the Turks, who were now making a stand at Sharieh station, but the men soon had this in our hands, suffering heavily from enemy shelling. After leaving the wadi, we had a galop of 8 miles through Sharieh, causing a break in the enemy lines. We captured a dump with 75,000 shells & 3 billion round of S.A.A. At 4 p.m. we mounted again, charging an enemy redoubt after a 3 mile gallop, but they succeeded in getting away before we could reach it & their guns gave us a very sultry time, and impossible for us to to pursue the retreating force till the guns had been captured by the 2nd Bde. We were on outpost, still in