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On 11 August 1914, the 4th Light Horse Regiment was raised in Melbourne, as the divisional cavalry regiment of the 1st Division. [1] Light horse regiments normally comprised twenty-five officers and 497 other ranks serving in three squadrons, each of six troops. [2] Each troop was divided into eight sections, of four men each.
Gunners of A Battery, Honourable Artillery Company, attached to the 4th Australian Light Horse Brigade, crouch between their 13 pounder quick fire field guns and a cactus hedge near Belah, Palestine, in March 1918. During World War I, the 4th Light Horse Brigade consisted of the following: [18] [37] [38] [39] 4th Light Horse Regiment (1917–1919)
Troopers of the 4th Light Horse Brigade at Beersheeba, 1917. The light horse were organised along cavalry rather than infantry lines. A light horse regiment, although technically equivalent to an infantry battalion in terms of command level, contained only 25 officers and 400 men as opposed to an infantry battalion that consisted of around ...
Bourchier commanded a CMF light horse troop at Numurkah, Victoria from 1909 to 1914. At the outbreak of World War I he was commissioned into the 4th Light Horse Regiment and left with the first contingent of the First Australian Imperial Force. [2] He served with the regiment in the Gallipoli, Egyptian, Sinai, Palestine and Syrian campaigns.
The brigade was reformed in January 1917 – with the 4th Light Horse Regiment in place of the 13th – and joined the division on formation. [ 8 ] The 5th Mounted Brigade was formed as part of the Territorial Force in 1908 as the 1st South Midland Mounted Brigade with three yeomanry regiments: the Warwickshire Yeomanry , the Royal ...
3rd Light Horse Brigade (7th (New South Wales Lancers), 9th (New South Wales Mounted Rifles), and 11th (Australian Horse) Light Horse Regiment) 28th (Illawarra) Light Horse Regiment (divisional cavalry) 4th Australian Field Artillery Brigade (10th, 11th, and 12th Batteries) 5th Australian Field Artillery Brigade (13th and 14th Batteries)
The 4th and 12th Light Horse Regiments (4th Light Horse Brigade) were deployed on the right, while the 14th Light Horse Regiment and the Régiment Mixte de Marche de Cavalerie (RMMC) (5th Light Horse Brigade) took up a position on the left with the 3rd Light Horse Brigade in the rear; "each in column of squadrons in lines of troop columns."
Shanahan later gained the horse's trust and requested Banjo Paterson, head of the Remount Service, to release the recalcitrant animal to him. Perry has "the Bastard" carrying not three men but five, the inspiration for Carl Valerius' monument on the Burley Griffin Way at Murrumburrah, opposite the Light Horse Memorial Park. [14]