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is captured & we reach & off saddle there about 3 pm. Kuneitra is a picturesque Circassian village situated on a plain. The men where ^wear a large black fur head gear similar to a British soldiers busby. 3rd 4th & 5th L H Bdes & the 4th & 5th Cav Divs concentrate here for the move on Damascus about 40 miles away. A dozen 'planes swoop down & land back of our horse lines. As far as the eye can see is one mass of men horses & wagons.
I am by a stone wall with my instrument & the Brigadier is [shaving ?] on the other side of the wall. Two French Algerians with their red caps struggle by with a bleating sheep they have looted. Others come along with squawking fowls. They are making it too hot & the Brigadier sends for the French Commdt. & the looting ceases. Incidently, the Froggies have to