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'Photo by Newspaper Illustrations.) SOMEWHERE ON THE WESTERN FRONT: "THE CAVALRY ARE THROUGH." Philip Gibbs describes the thrill of excitement that passed through the lines when the news spiv. • tbal -he cavalry were through and beyond the Hindenburg line in the course of the British victory on the Western front. He escribes how rhe cavalry was massed in hiding, and made their sweeping drive, and how nr< squadron rode down a batterj of German guns and captured them. He writes: "It wa, a wonderu picture to see and remember. lh lS photograph, made from a drawing, in some measure shows what wo have occurred when the squadron as described rode down the battery of German -uns and capturedL Uem

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Otago Witness, Issue 3332, 23 January 1918, Page 37 (Supplement)

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'Photo by Newspaper Illustrations.) SOMEWHERE ON THE WESTERN FRONT: "THE CAVALRY ARE THROUGH." Philip Gibbs describes the thrill of excitement that passed through the lines when the news spiv. • tbal -he cavalry were through and beyond the Hindenburg line in the course of the British victory on the Western front. He escribes how rhe cavalry was massed in hiding, and made their sweeping drive, and how nr< squadron rode down a batterj of German guns and captured them. He writes: "It wa, a wonderu picture to see and remember. lhlS photograph, made from a drawing, in some measure shows what wo have occurred when the squadron as described rode down the battery of German -uns and capturedL Uem Otago Witness, Issue 3332, 23 January 1918, Page 37 (Supplement)

'Photo by Newspaper Illustrations.) SOMEWHERE ON THE WESTERN FRONT: "THE CAVALRY ARE THROUGH." Philip Gibbs describes the thrill of excitement that passed through the lines when the news spiv. • tbal -he cavalry were through and beyond the Hindenburg line in the course of the British victory on the Western front. He escribes how rhe cavalry was massed in hiding, and made their sweeping drive, and how nr< squadron rode down a batterj of German guns and captured them. He writes: "It wa, a wonderu picture to see and remember. lhlS photograph, made from a drawing, in some measure shows what wo have occurred when the squadron as described rode down the battery of German -uns and capturedL Uem Otago Witness, Issue 3332, 23 January 1918, Page 37 (Supplement)