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The charge of the Australian Light Horse at Beersheba, 1917, painted by George Lambert in 1920, shows troopers with bayonets in their hands and .303 rifles slung across their backs. Veterans complained that the formidable defences and determined Ottoman defenders are missing.
The Memorial to the Australian Light Horse at Tamworth was unveiled by Major General Digger James on 29 October 2005. [30] The Australian Light Horse is commemorated by the Light Horse Interchange and sculptural installations along the M4 motorway where it is crossed by the M7 at Eastern Creek in Western Sydney. [31]
During the Sinai and Palestine campaign of World War I, Allied forces gradually pushed the Ottoman military out of the Middle East.In 1918, the ANZAC Mounted Division, consisting of the New Zealand Mounted Rifles Brigade and the Australian 1st and 2nd Light Horse Brigades set camp near the village of Sarafand al-Amar in Palestine.
The 11th Light Horse Regiment was raised in Queensland and South Australia, and came together in Brisbane in May 1915. [1] Light horse regiments normally comprised twenty-five officers and 497 other ranks serving in three squadrons, each of six troops. [2]
A trooper of the 6th Light Horse Regiment. In December 1914, only three months after being raised the regiment sailed for Egypt arriving on 1 February 1915. [1] When the Australian foot infantry left Egypt to take part in the Gallipoli campaign, the light horse regiments were left behind, the authorities believing mounted troops would not be needed in the campaign.
The 5th Light Horse Brigade crosses the Ghoraniyeh bridge, Jordan River, April 1918, during the Sinai and Palestine Campaign The Australian Light Horse during World War I. At the outbreak of the war August 1914 the Australian Government decided to raise the Australian Imperial Force (AIF) consisting of 20,000 troops comprising an infantry division and a light horse brigade of three regiments ...
The Australian Mounted Division originally formed as the Imperial Mounted Division in January 1917, was a mounted infantry, light horse and yeomanry division.The division was formed in Egypt, and along with the Anzac Mounted Division formed part of Desert Column, Egyptian Expeditionary Force in World War I.
C Squadron 8th Light Horse Regiment Broadmeadows Camp 1915 State Library Victoria Accession no: H82.32 . The 8th Light Horse Regiment was raised at Victoria in September 1914, originally as the 6th Light Horse Regiment, but following a reorganisation in October was renumbered the 8th Regiment, [1] and comprised twenty-five officers and 497 other ranks serving in three squadrons, each of six ...