The New Zealanders in Sinai and Palestine, Volume 3Whitcombe and Tombs limited, 1922 - 284 pagina's |
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THE NEW ZEALANDERS IN SINAI AND PALESTINE [Illustrated Edition] Lt Col C. G. Powles Gedeeltelijke weergave - 2014 |
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1st L.H. Brigade 2nd L.H. Brigade 60th Division advance Amman ammunition Anzac Mounted Division Arish Army artillery Asluj attack Auckland Regiment Australian Australian Mounted Division Battalion Battery BATTLE OF GAZA Battle of Romani Beersheba began bivouac bridge Camel Brigade Camped Canal Canterbury Regiment captured casualties cavalry Chaytor column Command crossing daylight Desert Mounted Corps Divisional east Egypt El Arish enemy enemy's Es Salt fighting fire flank force front Ghoraniyeh ground Headquarters hills I.C.C. Brigade infantry Jaffa Jericho Jerusalem Jordan valley Khan Yunus Lieut Light Horse Brigade Machine Gun Squadron machine guns Magdhaba miles morning mountains Mounted Brigade Mounted Rifles mounted troops move N.Z.M.R. Brigade night o'clock officers Palestine patrols plain position prisoners Rafa railway reached reinforcements road Roman sand sent Sheikh Shellal Sinai Temp took town trenches Turkish Turks village Wadi Ghuzzeh Wellington Regiment Yeomanry Zealand Brigade Zealand Mounted
Populaire passages
Pagina v - BLOW out, you bugles, over the rich Dead ! There's none of these so lonely and poor of old, But, dying, has made us rarer gifts than gold. These laid the world away; poured out the red Sweet wine of youth; gave up the years to be Of work and joy, and that unhoped serene, That men call age; and those, who would have been, Their sons, they gave, their immortality.
Pagina 14 - I mean, in the sense of sky. You look to the sun, for he is your taskmaster, and by him you know the measure of the work that you have done, and the measure of the work that remains for you to do ; he comes when you strike your tent in the early morning, and then, for the first hour of the day, as you move forward on your camel, he stands at your near side, and makes you know that the whole day's toil is before you — then for a while, and for a long while, you see him no more — for you are veiled...
Pagina 14 - ... move forward on your camel, he stands at your near side and makes you know that the whole day's toil is before you ; then for a while, and a long while, you see him no more, for you are veiled and shrouded, and dare not look upon the greatness of his glory, but you know where he strides overhead by the touch of his flaming sword.
Pagina 14 - ... by the touch of his flaming sword. No words are spoken, but your Arabs moan, your camels sigh, your skin glows, your shoulders ache, and for sights you see the pattern, and the web of the silk that veils your eyes, and the glare of the outer light.
Pagina 14 - ... but conquering time marches on, and by and by the descending sun has compassed the heaven, and now softly touches your right arm, and throws your lank shadow over the sand, right along on the way for Persia. Then again you look upon his face, for his power is all veiled in his beauty, and the redness of flames has become the redness of roses; the fair, wavy cloud that fled in the morning now comes to his sight once more — comes blushing, yet still conies on, comes burning with blushes, yet...
Pagina 14 - ... your Arabs moan, your camels sigh, your skin glows, your shoulders ache, and for sights you see the pattern and the web of the silk that veils your eyes, and the glare of the outer light. Time...
Pagina 167 - ... indefinite distances under Turkish escort is exposed to outrage and hardship which prove fatal to most of them; but the delay in telegraphing had saved the population, and the sun had risen for the last time on the Ottoman domination of Jerusalem, and the Turks' power to destroy faded with the day.
Pagina 167 - Turks west and southwest of the town, and at 5 in the afternoon civilians were surprised to see a Turkish transport column galloping furiously cityward along the Jaffa road. In passing they alarmed all units within sight or hearing, and the wearied infantry arose and fled, bootless and without rifles, never pausing to think or to fight. Some were flogged...
Pagina 14 - Time marches on, and by and by the descending Sun has compassed the Heaven, and now softly touches your right arm, and throws your lank shadow over the sand, right along on the way for Persia; then again, you look upon his face, for his power is all veiled in his beauty, and the redness of flames has become the redness of roses— the fair, wavy cloud that fled in the morning now comes to his...
Pagina 26 - Thebes, a thing which never happened before, and which, to the present time, has never happened again, as the Thebans themselves testify. In Upper Egypt it does not usually rain at all; but on this occasion, rain fell at Thebes in small drops. 11. The Persians crossed the desert, and, pitching their camp close to the Egyptians, made ready for battle. Hereupon the mercenaries in the pay of Psammenitus, who were Greeks and Carians, full of anger against Phanes for having brought a foreign army upon...