Chapter Twenty-Two — Action at the River Auja and Engagement at Khirbet Hadrah - Official War History of the Wellington Mounted Rifles Regiment 1914-1919

Content Partner: Victoria University of Wellington. About this time our 52nd and 75th Infantry Divisions were on the right flank, closing in on Jerusalem. The Holy City was strongly held, and with the view of making the enemy believe that a further advance was intended to the north of Jaffa, it was decided to secure a bridge head over the Nahr El Auja and to clear the enemy from the northern ban...