A brief account of the 1st Cape Corps' fight at Square Hill, 18 to 21 September 1918

摘要

We were, indeed, thoroughly 'salted' -as one of our officers put it-to the conditions of the difficult country in which we were operating. Away to the east lay the Dead Sea; to the south, one could just make out Jerusalem; to the west, a long range of hills stretched seaward; and, to the north we knew only too well - the firing line. Our Regiment was bivouacked just under a hill known as Cheshire Ridge.rnOn the night of the 17th September, we were marched down a kloof called Borthwick Wady (the word 'wady' meaning 'river-bed', but in Egypt and Palestine it is widely applied to a kloof) and here we put on our war-paint. Ammunition was distributed, and great preparations were made for the next day's work.