H02157A Accession Number: H02157A

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The 2nd Australian Light Horse Regiment parades past the Town Hall in Queen Street a few days prior to embarking on HMT Star of England (A15) at Pinkenba on 24 September 1914. On Saturday afternoon 19th September 1914, a force of over 2000 men – Light Horse, with Colonel Stodart commanding the mounted section, Infantry, under Colonel Lee, Artillery, Army Service, and Army Medical Corps, marched through the streets of Brisbane in a ‘long, impressive column’. The Brisbane Courier described the men, who had come directly from the training camp at Enoggera, as ‘a fine body of sun-tanned, athletic men in khaki’. The Light Horse lead the march, followed by their motor machine guns and the 18 pounder guns of the Field Artillery, then the Service Corps, and the Red Cross wagon. The march followed a considerable route – about 12 1/2 miles from Enoggera via Kelvin Grove Road, Countess Street, George Street, Queen Street, Brunswick Street, and on by Bowen Bridge Road and Newmarket Road back to camp. See H02158 - H02160 for a sequence of the parade.

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Accession Number
H02157A
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Print
Physical Description
Colour: Black & white
Date Made
19 September 1914
Place Made
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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