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for cunning & dash & sheer capacity to get things done they are in a rare class.
The other day a young subaltern who had just got his Commission galloped down the mountain side with his troop of 25 into E S SALT found it fully Turkish & German troops, shot 20 dead, & fighting from the horses with their bayonets in their hands & scattered into ones & twos all over the town, secured 180 prisoners.
The Turkish communique thrown out by wireless said E S SALT was captured by the "reckless bravery of the Australian cavalry". The British communique had a big reference to "our Colonial troops". – Unhappily we now have some of our men in Jordan Valley which is the very stepping stone to hell. Shade temperature was from 108 to 120.
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