appropriation". All hurried conversions are unsatisfactory & our in the matter of equipment ours was no exception. In lieu of the leather bandoliers of a lighthorseman we had been given a flimsy drill haversack blown together in Egypt in a few hours to do the office of a pack. Quicker than the most efficient Q.M. could have managed it we issued ourselves with regulation infantry web equipment from a dump of stuff left by casualties & "handed in" what the men termed the "pillowslips". During this time the O/C had been seeking orders, & on his return we moved off. It was a hot day & each man was loaded to his utmost capacity, - as you can imagine in the case of a regiment moving without a stick of transport. Moreover it was impossible to dump anything such as the big iron dixies we were carrying for others wanted them as much as we & would adopt the same methods as we to get them. Turning at Steel Spit we wound our way in Indian File up Kumur Kapu Dere which was better known as Shrapnel Gully and at the valley head as Monash Gully. We were
