STORY OF TWO CAMPAIGNS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18087, 11 May 1922, Page 9

STORY OF TWO CAMPAIGNS.

The Auckland Mounted Rifles Regiment served on Gallipoli as infantry before being employed in the Sinai and Palestine campaign in the work for which, it had been trained. The nature of tho Gallipoli campaign is well-known, but not bo the latter, and therefore the official history of the regiment. "The Story of Two Campaigns," by Sergeant C. G. Nicol, is of special value to the. general public. Describing the sect-ion of tho book devoted to mounted warfare, the Now Zealand Times says: "'the reader is carried along with the rush of the splendid enduring lighting men through the desert of Sinai ; he shares their disappointment at being ordered out of Bcersheba in the moment of their entry into that much-contested city; he feels their weariness in defensive work and outpost lighting that followed; he is carried away with the enthusiasm of their advance under Allenby; and seems to take part in the many great fights of the regiment of which a high military authority said that they had repeatedly captured positions always regarded as impossible for mounted troops; ho takes part in their raid over the Jordan, one of the most brilliant feats of the war, in which their hard-riding valour pushed back the Turks and secured the crossing places and the bridge-building: he is with them in the great movement which held the Turks in the East while the great cavalry manoeuvre on the West crumpled up the Turkish armies; and ho rejoices with them in the final, victory— the narrative full of brilliant episodes, daring adventures, hazardous retreats and eternal vigilance and enterprise is most inspiring."