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Left Queensland in December 1914 as a junior officer with the 5th Light Horse Regiment; arrived Egypt January 1915; the Light Horse trained with horses in Egypt until Gallipoli and then went to Gallipoli as infantry; British troops at Suvla bay; rifles and artillery at Gallipoli; machine guns; jam tin bombs; ships involved with Gallipoli campaign; barrels of wine coming ashore from a ship as it broke up; Damascus; Turkish Camel Corps.
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Brigadier George Langley DSO, Commanding Officer of the 1st Battalion (Australian) Imperial Camel Corps, and Commanding Officer of the 14th Light Horse Regiment, December 1916 - January 1919 [memoirs]
Briar wood, metal and ebonite smoking pipe in an 'Apple' shape. Hand carved on the front of the bowl of the pipe are the words '4TH LIGHT HORSE / ENDURE AND FIGHT 1916', surrounding a kangaroo within
Discusses service in 26th Light Horse Regiment (Tasmania Mounted Infantry) prior to the First World War at Wynyard under Lieutenant Tyrell; Easter Encampments at Mona Vale; enlisted in the AIF in 1916
Discusses bombing the horse lines and camp by the "Torbes" (Taube - German aircraft), Damascus, Lawrence of Arabia, Harper, riots in Cario, how the horses were destroyed after the war had finished, th
Private Edward O'Brien (service number 3511) discusses: working with the Lines Department of the Post Master General (P.M.G.) after the war, Colonel George Bell, Major Clarke in Palestine, working as
Loomwork beaded bookmark made by a Turkish prisoner of war. The bookmark is composed of small glass beads threaded vertically on to heavy cotton thread. The beads are also separated horizontally by th
