The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Four members of the 8th Australian Light Horse Regiment. Identified left to right: Major (later Lieutenant Colonel (Lt Col)) Archibald McGibbon McLaurin, Lieutenant (later Captain (Capt)) Thomas Sydney Austin, Capt Mervyn Bournes Higgins of Malvern, Vic and Sergeant (later Second Lieutenant (2nd Lt)) Charles Clifford Denham St Pinnock. Lt Col McLaurin died of pneumonia on 23 November 1918, Capt Higgins was killed in action on 23 December 1916 and 2nd Lt St Pinnock was later transferred to the 57th Battalion and was killed in action in France on 19 August 1916.
The Last Post Ceremony is presented in the Commemorative area of the Australian War Memorial each day. The ceremony commemorates more than 102,000 Australians who have given their lives in war and oth
Collection relating to the service of 2nd Lieutenant Charles Clifford Denham St. Pinnock, 8 Light Horse (later 57 Battalion), Gallipoli, 1915. Collection consists of typed extracts from two letters w
Outdoor portrait of the officers of C Squadron, 8th Light Horse Regiment, in camp at Broadmeadows prior to departure for overseas service. All took part in the charge at The Nek on the Gallipoli Penin
Portrait of Lieutenant Colonel Archibald McGibbon McLaurin, 8th Australian Light Horse Regiment, of Rutherglen, Victoria, who died of pneumonia on 23 November 1918.
Outdoor portrait of Lieutenant Colonel Archibald McGibbon McLaurin, 8th Australian Light Horse Regiment, of Rutherglen, Victoria, who died of pneumonia on 23 November 1918.
Original grave marker of Lieutenant Colonel Archibald McGibbon McLaurin, 8th Australian Light Horse Regiment, of Rutherglen, Victoria, who died of pneumonia on 23 November 1918.
The original grave of Captain Adjutant Headquarters Mervyn Bournes Higgins, C Squadron, 8th Light Horse, of Malvern, Vic. A barrister prior to enlistment on 3 February 1915, Higgins embarked from Melb
