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kindly to this method of being mounted & proceeds to show her displeasure in lashing out violently at the poor unoffending steed next door, whose rider is in about the same predicament as myself. After several violent gymnastic exercises I succeed in getting into the saddle. I calmsooth my noble steed and order is restored.
"Tell off by sections"! "Advance in sections"! "Right wheel"! and we are off.
We follow on behind Brigade Hqrs Staff which comprises about 50 men viz General. Brigade Major, Staff Captain, Intelligence Officer & Vetinary Major, with their grooms batmen & orderlies. "How far are we going tonight"? Nobody knows. The Turks are about 15 miles away. "are we going right on tonight & is the stunt starting tomorrow"? No one knows excepting the Heads & they keep it religiously to themselves. The ^14th & 15th regiments