 On 7 August the Greater Bairam ( a feast day celebrating the end of the Islamic year ) coincided with the Egyptian Camel Transport Corps at Romani being ordered to move out with supplies for the advancing troops , but 150 men , most of whom were past the end of their contracts and entitled to be discharged , refused orders to fill their water bottles , draw their rations and saddle up . One man was hit about the head with the butt of a pistol and the dissenters were dispersed into small groups and reassigned to various units in the infantry division ; the 52nd ( Lowland ) Division . 
 On 7 August the Greater Bairam ( a feast day celebrating the end of the Islamic year ) coincided with the Egyptian Camel Transport Corps at Romani being ordered to move out with supplies for the advancing troops , but 150 men , most of whom <a href='uninflect' title='1'><mark>were</mark></a> past the end of their contracts and entitled to be discharged , refused orders to fill their water bottles , draw their rations and saddle up . One man was hit about the head with the butt of a pistol and the dissenters <a href='uninflect' title='2'><mark>were</mark></a> dispersed into small groups and reassigned to various units in the infantry division ; the 52nd ( Lowland ) Division . 
On 7 August the Greater Bairam ( a feast day celebrating the end of the Islamic year ) coincided with the Egyptian Camel Transport Corps at Romani being ordered to move out with supplies for the advancing troops , but 150 men , most of whom was past the end of their contracts and entitled to b discharged , refused orders to fill their water bottles , draw their rations and saddle up . One man was hit about da head witt tdabutt of a pistol and the dissenters was dispersed into small groups and reassigned to various units in the infantry division ; the 52nd ( Lowland ) Division .