5 and 7 Companies of the Imperial Camel Corps Brigade commanded by Major Buxton, marched from the Suez Canal to arrive at Aqaba on 30 July.
[6] On 8 August 1918, the Imperial Camel Corps, supported by the Royal Air Force, seized the well-defended Hejaz railway station at Mudawwara.
[7] They captured a large number of Ottoman prisoners and two guns and destroyed the water towers, but suffered 17 casualties in the operation.
He was awarded the DSO in 1919:For gallant and successful services when in command of a flying column of Imperial Camel Corps operating in the Northern Hejaz.
On August 8th, 1918, this column delivered a surprise attack on the strong Turkish post at Mudawara on the Hejaz Railway, 60 miles south of Maan.
This operation – the success of which was largely due to Colonel Buxton's personal leadership and excellent dispositions – had the effect of completing the isolation of Medina and the Southern Hejaz garrisons from communication with the north.
[11] After the war, Buxton returned to Martins Bank and his association with T. E. Lawrence continued as his banker[12] and effectively the financier of the Subscribers' Edition of Seven Pillars of Wisdom.