“There were three great battles fought at Gaza, and in the first two the Turks were victorious in spite of the fact that these men fought with desperate valour and many of them advanced far beyond their objectives. But they were forced to fight against overwhelming odds. In the third battle they swept right in through Gaza. At one point called El Arish Redoubt, four waves on Lowlanders went over the top to capture it. When the first wave went out the Turks touched off hidden mines, and every Scotsman was blown up and killed. But the second and third and fourth waves plunged right on over the bodies of their dead comrades, and they didn't stop until they had either shot or bayoneted every Turk in El Arish Redoubt.”
-Lowell Thomas
“With Allenby in Palestine” (1919)
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