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The 7th Light Horse Regiment was a mounted infantry regiment of the Australian Army during the First World War. The regiment was raised in October 1914, and assigned to the 2nd Light Horse Brigade. The regiment fought against the forces of the Ottoman Empire, in Egypt, at Gallipoli, on the Sinai Peninsula, and in Palestine and Jordan. After the ...
7th Light Horse Regiment: Ker, William Innes [135] France: 50th Battalion: Kerr, Harold [136] Lorn, West Maitland, New South Wales: 22 Aug 1914: 19: Gallipoli: Served in the 1st Light Horse Regiment, and was killed in action on 7 Aug 1915 Kidd, Thomas Anderson [137] Major: VIC: 10th Light Horse Regiment: Kiel, William Ernest [138] Lance ...
The 7th/21st Light Horse Regiment was a mounted infantry regiment of the Australian Army. Initially formed in 1936 through the amalgamation of two previously existing light horse regiments, the 7th/21st was formed as a part time unit in the state of New South Wales. It was split again in 1937.
By 1945, only two units remained. The first of these was the 20th Light Horse Regiment, which as the 20th Motor Regiment, served overseas, at Merauke, and was later converted into a pioneer regiment. The second unit was the 1st Light Horse Regiment, which became the 1st Tank Battalion, and as such fought in New Guinea and Borneo. [28]
The 7th Light Cavalry, previously the 28th Light Cavalry, was a regular army cavalry regiment in the British Indian Army. It was raised in 1784 under the East India Company. The regiment later saw service on the North West Frontier and in World War I and World War II. In 1947, it was allocated to the new Indian Army, where it continues to exist ...
7th Light Horse Brigade (17th (Campaspe), 19th (Yarrowee), and 20th (Corangamite) Light Horse Regiments) 29th (Port Phillip Horse) Light Horse Regiment (divisional cavalry) 7th Australian Field Artillery Brigade (19th, 20th, 21st, and 25th Batteries) 8th Australian Field Artillery Brigade (22nd, 23rd, 31st, and 46th Batteries)
Five minutes later, the 7th Light Horse Regiment cut the road and captured the convoy (47 prisoners, eight horses and eight wagons loaded with forage). However, the regiment was pinned down just beyond, in a small wadi in the rough country north of Wadi Khalil by the gun battery and machine guns located on Tel el Sakaty, above the road.
[8] [9] [10] The band of the 6th Light Horse Regiment played So Long, written by patriotic Australian composer May Summerbelle, as they set sail. [11] 7th Light Horse Regiment at Gallipoli, 1915. Arriving in Egypt, in February 1915, training was undertaken at Maadi Camp, during which further drafts of reinforcements were received from Australia ...