"The Hallat Ammar Ambush, 19 September 1917" Topic
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Tango01 | 24 Jun 2022 9:11 p.m. PST |
"Lawrence had already decided to pull out when the Arab lookout on top of the hill shouted down that a train was standing at Hallat Ammar Station. By the time he had climbed up to look for himself, the train was moving. Racing back down the slope, he yelled to his men to get into position, and there was a wild scramble over sand and rock. The 80-odd riflemen were posted in a line just below the lip of a low ridge running parallel with the railway and about 150 yards from it. Two sergeant-instructors had set up their weapons at one end of this line, about 300 yards from the intended demolition, and so placed that they would take the train in enfilade. Yells, an Australian, ‘long, thin, and sinuous, his suppled body lounging in unmilitary curves', had charge of two Lewis light machine-guns, and Brooke, ‘a stocky English yeoman, workmanlike and silent', operated a Stokes mortar; accordingly they were known as ‘Lewis' and ‘Stokes'. Salem, Feisal's best slave and one of four with the expedition, having pleaded for the honour of operating the exploder, was waiting in some hollows at the bottom of the ridge. Lawrence had spent some hours the previous day planting a 50lb charge of blasting gelatine on top of a bridge and then burying the 200-yard cable. He now placed himself on a little hillock near the bridge from which he could signal to Salem when the moment for detonation came…"
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Shagnasty | 25 Jun 2022 7:24 a.m. PST |
I think I saw this in a movie once, except for the mortar. |
Tango01 | 25 Jun 2022 3:49 p.m. PST |
The movie about Lawrence (smile)… Anthony Quinn lead the Arab charge… Armand
Armand
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Grumble87106 | 04 Jul 2022 2:18 p.m. PST |
I think I saw this in a movie once, except for the mortar In the movie they used a Vickers MMG, not Lewis guns. |
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