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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 ...
According to him, only the 4th Light Horse Regiment, charged and captured the town. "Time was short, and the Brigade Commander, Brigadier–General Grant DSO, sent his leading regiment to charge the trenches. This Regiment, the 4th Light Horse, galloped over the trenches, which were 8 feet deep and 4 feet wide, and full of Turks.
While the 4th Light Horse Brigade buried their dead and the field ambulance treated the wounded, a squadron of the 12th Light Horse Regiment advanced along the western shore of the Sea of Galilee, to meet with the 3rd Light Horse Brigade which had captured Jenin, which had advanced directly over the hills from Nazareth at 15:00 on 25 September ...
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.
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 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 ...