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[Page 47]
July 1916
got hit. One horse was wounded in the shoulder. We withdrew to about 1200 yds from the Turkish position & sat down & watched them all day. We did not fire a shot B Troop got 1 Turk prisoner also his camal. He was very thirsty & kissed Frank Fitzgerald Seemed to be very pleased at his treatment. The Wellingtons got 8 prisoners & they got their photo taken quite a number of times. They must have felt quite in the [indecipherable] We left Oghratina at 6 pm The Turks made no movement at all. We got back to camp at 11 pm & got 4 hrs sleep.
The 1st Brigade went out just after midnight of the 23rd got into touch with Abdul & had 2 men killed & 4 wounded. An enemy machine said to be a Fokker appeared over our camp & was attacked by one of our biplanes. They had a savage & long fight. The Turkish machine had to descend & both our pilot & observer got wounded. Heard later that the pilot died shortly after getting his machine back