 Complete the following phrase:  Details of the service of the Devon companies are sketchy. At the end of August 1917, 571st Company officially changed its designation from Works to Army Troops and most of the company embarked at Southampton on 29 September the wagons and horses followed a month later. 570th and 571st Companies disembarked at Alexandria in October, where 569th Company was already engaged on various duties around the ports and camps. At this stage of the Sinai and Palestine Campaign, the Egyptian Expeditionary Force EEF was about to launch the Battle of Beersheba and begin its advance to 