Yeo.
1/1st Berkshire Yeo. 1/1st Co. of London 1/1st Staffordshire
Yeo. Yeo.
1/1st Dorset Yeo. l/3rd Co. of London 1/1st E. Riding
Yeo. Yeo.

7th Mounted Brigade (attached Desert Corps).

1/1st Sherwood Rangers. 1/1st South Notts Hussars.

Imperial Camel Brigade.

VI

There can be no better illustration of how one battle worked out
'according to plan' than the quotation of the following Force Order:

FORCE ORDER

GENERAL HEADQUARTERS,
_22nd October_ 1917.

It is the intention of the Commander-in-Chief to take the
offensive against the enemy at Gaza and at Beersheba, and
when Beersheba is in our hands to make an enveloping
attack on the enemy's left flank in the direction of Sheria
and Hareira.

On Zero day XXth Corps with the 10th Division and
Imperial Camel Brigade attached and the Desert Mounted
Corps less one Mounted Division and the Imperial Camel
Brigade will attack the enemy at Beersheba with the object
of gaining possession of that place by nightfall.

As soon as Beersheba is in our hands and the necessary
arrangements have been made for the restoration of the
Beersheba water supply, XXth Corps and Desert Mounted
Corps complete will move rapidly forward to attack the
left of the enemy's main position with the object of driving
him out of Sheria and Hareira and enveloping the left flank
of his army. XXth Corps will move against the enemy's
defences south of Sheria, first of all against the Kauwukah
line and then against Sheria and the Hareira defences.
Desert Mounted Corps calling up the Mounted Division left
in general reserve during the Beersheba operation will move
north of the XXth Corps to gain possession of Nejile and of
any water supplies between that place and the right of
XXth Corps and will be prepared to operate vigorously
against and round the enemy's left flank if he should throw
it back to oppose the advance of the XXth Corps.

On a date to be subsequently determined and which will
probably be after the occupation of Beersheba and 24 to
48 hours before the attack of XXth Corps on the Kauwukah
line, the XXIst Corps will attack the south-west defences
of Gaza with the object of capturing the enemy's front-line
system from Umbrella Hill to Sheikh Hasan, both inclusive.

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