'TENTH CRUSADE'

Evening Post, Volume XCVII, Issue 127, 31 May 1919, Page 10

'TENTH CRUSADE'

NEW ZEALANDERS' SHARE

SINAI PALESTINE CAMPAIGNS

GLORY OF MOUNTED RIFLES BRIGADE

WONDERFUL CAVALRY ADVANCE

1916. May 31: C&ptore of "enemy posts aA Bh" Sulmana. August 3-4: Victory of RomanL December 21: Capture of El Arish. December 23.; Battle of Magdhaba. 1917. Jaaanaiy-Si Battle of Raia. March 26-27: First Battle of Gaza. April 17-13: Second Battle of Gaza.: October 31: Capture of Beersheba. November 14; New Zealanders charge at AyuruKara. November 15: Ramleh and Ludd occupied, i November 16: New Zealanders take Jaffa, December 9i Fall of Jarusalem a 1918. , Pebrn^'2l: *Eall «f Jerrcho. - March. 22-April 2: First raid on Hedjaz Tail-way. April 30: Auzacs retake Es Salt. _ - • July 14: Turco-German attack on Jericho repulshed. September 23: New Zealanders again capture Es Salt. September 25: Fall)of Amman. September 2s:. JSHrrnnder. of 10th Turkish Array,

Many-Bfcraxigß fpages Temam to'be reCorded in New Zeaknd'-S history since [August, 1914, but surely none stranger 'than the story of ihe New Zealand Mounted Rifles Brigade that fought throughout the Sinai-Palestine campaigns,; ■which, lajsfing from 1915 to 1918, were crowned with one of the most striking successes in the annals of war. Owing to, attention having been focussed so much' on "The Great Adventure" at Gallipoli, and on the all-important [Western front, New Zeaknders are by no means conversant with the battle performances of their famous Mounted Rifles Brigade, and The Post accordingly places them on> record for the first time.". New Zealanders, as will be seen, have good reason to be proud of .their Mounted Brigade, whose deeds rank among the finest cavalry achievements since men first went to war on horseback. The imperishable stories of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force on . Gallipoli and of the New v Zealand Division in France have already been published in the columns of The Post, also summarised accounts of the cap■ture of Samoa and. the.first battles on "iho Suez Canal, when the New'Zealandl '.Army abroad sustained its first casualties. ': ") '.'"'■.■