THE BATTLE OF MAGDHABA
This time of the year—thirteen years ago,—when the battle of Magdhaba was fought, was anything but a Christmaslike time for the New Zealand Mounted Rifle Brigade, which was operating then in Sinai. Towards the end of December, 1916, the Turks retreated from El Ar;sh to Magdhaba, thirty miles away. The New Zealanders set out from 20! Arish on the evening or! Ist December, and reached the vicinity of Magdhaba at 4.50 o'clock the next morning. The action began about 8 a.m., and by 3.30 p.m. the Turks were surrendering in all directions. The New Zealand casualties were comparatively small, 12 being killed, and 134. wounded. In an address to the brigade the following day, General Chefcwode said that the mounted men at Magdhaba had done what he had never known cavalry in the history of war to have done before, i.e., they had not only located and surrounded the enemy position, but they had got down to it as infantry, and carried fortified positions at the point of the bayonet."
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 151, 23 December 1929, Page 12
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174THE BATTLE OF MAGDHABA Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 151, 23 December 1929, Page 12
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