They moved by half-sections of horse through the pass, without sending out flank guards to piquet " the heights . " As they negotiated the pass, they overtook and stopped a long column of Ottoman transport, capturing about 200 prisoners.
42.
On 29 September, French artillery bombarded the area between Mametz, Carnoy and Maricourt, apparently directed by a hidden observer in Montauban and during the evening a German flank guard was put out facing Mametz in case of a French counter-attack.
43.
In the event, the three forces failed to synchronize exactly : Ammatas arrived early and was killed as he attempted a reconnaissance with a small force by the Roman vanguard, while Gibamund's force was intercepted by the Hunnic flank guard and was utterly destroyed.
44.
Meanwhile, the 4th Light Horse Brigade supported by at least two Royal Horse Artillery batteries took up their position of flank guard astride the Jisr ed Damieh to Es Salt road facing north-west opposite a strong German and Ottoman position holding the bridge over the Jordan River.
45.
The 5th Battalion, of the King's Own Scottish Borderers on the left, was flank guard against the woodlands on the western slope of the ridge, which had been targeted by gas shells during the artillery bombardment, with the 4th Battalion Scots Fusiliers on their right.
46.
After he left one brigade at Jisr ed Damieh as flank guard, covered from the west bank by the Imperial Camel Corps Brigade, the remaining brigades would move up the road to Es Salt, capture the village and launch a second attack on Shunet Nimrin from the rear.
47.
Beauman ordered the crossings to be secured by part of the divisional Support Group and next day part of the division concentrated in the For�t de Lyons, east of Rouen as a flank guard on the lower Andelle and to protect the arrival of the rest of the division on 23 May.
48.
Overnight two companies of the Royal Scots arrived with a convoy of supplies and the march began at with a screen of cavalry to the front but just east of Wadi Hashefiat, the force was fired on from the left around the flank guard retired northwards chased by what appeared to be British troops.
49.
On 1 May the Ottoman troops which pushed in the 4th Light Horse Brigade's flank guard near Jisr ed Damieh, were the Ottoman 3rd Cavalry Division and part of an infantry division ( probably the VIII Corps'48th Division ) part of whom continued on up the road to attack Es Salt.
50.
Late on 25 September, after the Sixth Army had been held up by the fire power of the German forces north of St . Quentin, Foch arranged a northward move of the inter-army boundary, so that the I and XXXII Corps could attack Sailly-Saillisel from the south, with V Corps as right flank guard.
