They were accompanied by supporting elements of an ambulance, veterinary and administrative staff.
[5] The Légion d'Orient's Syrian company arrived at Port Said on 6 February 1918.
[5] Capitaine Kerversau's squadron of Spahis embarked aboard the Hyperia in Bizerte on 22 July 1918, for transit to Alexandria, along with a machine gun platoon transported by mules commanded by Lieutenant Delahaye.
On 28 July at 9.30pm, the ship was torpedoed at a location more than eighty miles northwest of Port Said.
[7] As a consequence, the Spahi squadron and machine gun platoon took part in the remainder of the campaign dismounted, alongside the infantry of the DFPS.