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unpleasantly near. One bursts on a line with us about a hundred yards away, but that is the last for our guns back have arrived and are making an infernal din. I love those guns. What confidence they put into a man. I have very little recollection of what occurred in the next hour. I have a blurred memory of heliograph Brigadier Generals artillery etc. I can remember watching our shells burst on a Rly Stn in the distance & then we are off again into the hills. We are going to xx block the enemy retreat along the Beyroute [Beirut?] road. Our Machine Guns are behind us & as we reach a gap in the hills overlooking the Beyroute road, I see an officer frantically waving his arms & yelling "Machine Guns at the gallop". In a few minutes they are in action. I sneak up alongside to have a look & see a cloud of dust