“Next day, the 6th November, we learnt that the Turks had completely evacuated Tekrit during the night, so I sent an officer’s patrol, under Lieutenant Stirling, to go over the battlefield and to gather what information they could about our dead and wounded. On its return I learnt that our Infantry had buried six dead, presumably belonging to the Regiment, although they could not be identified, as the Turks had stripped them completely, even to their identity discs; so on the following day, the 7th, I obtained permission to take a party for the purpose of burying all our men together, and succeeded in getting the Divisional Padre--Ryan--to accompany it. We only succeeded in finding four bodies--viz., those of Captain Robinson, Sergeants Gray and Newman, and Private Francomb, and these we collected and buried, and the Padre read the burial service over them. We also found Lieutenant Williams-Taylor’s horse, dead, where it fell, and from its position, and from the report of the man who saw him lying under it, pinned by its weight to the ground, I felt confident in assuming that he had been taken prisoner by the Turks. _Note added on 6th February 1918._--“This assumption has been confirmed by wire received to-day from London, and I have every hope of hearing soon that S.S.M. Tegg is also alive, but a prisoner of war. [Illustration: 13th HUSSARS. The Charge of Squadrons B and C at Tekrit in Mesopotamia on Monday, the 5th of November, 1917. S.S.M. F. J. TEGG. Capt. S. O. ROBINSON. Sergt. A. S. NEWMAN. Sergt. JOHN GRAY. IN UNFADING MEMORY Pte. F. G. JASPER. Pte. WM. THOMSON. 1914 Staff. 13224 Pte. MICHAEL MACDONNELL Served with the 6th Dragoon Guards in S. Africa, 1900-1902. (_No portrait available._) Pte. WM. FRANCOMB. “Then the cavalry came in on the extreme left. They went in with the point, jumped the trenches and scattered the Turks who were fleeing in confusion after being driven from their trenches in the assaults by the infantry. This charge was carried through 1,000 yards beyond the trench held by our infantry when machine-gun and field-gun fire was encountered at close range. The cavalry wheeled about and covered their withdrawal by dismounted action.” _The Times_, 15th Nov., 1917. Extract from a letter of one who took part in the charge: “The most pleasant part was to hear our infantry cheering us as we cleared the trenches and galloped between them and the Turks.”] “I will conclude this short account of an incident which deserves a prominent place in the annals of the Regiment, by giving a list of the ‘immediate rewards’ which were bestowed by the Commander-in-Chief on individuals for various acts of gallantry performed on the afternoon of the 5th November. These were:--