Complex sentence: Combeforce could see the fighting and picked up Italians who got through, C Battery bombarding any Italian party which looked organised and by noon a lull had fallen and the Rifle Brigade Officers' mess tent was put up behind the reserve company.
Split into simpler sentences: Combeforce could see the fighting and picked up Italians who got through, C Battery bombarding any Italian party which looked organised. By noon Combeforce was busy rounding up prisoners and in the lull the Rifle Brigade Officers' mess tent was put up behind the reserve company.