The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Portrait of Brigadier General William Grant CMG DSO and Bar who commanded the Australian 4th Light Horse Brigade 1917-1919 and the Anzac Mounted Division (temporarily) in 1918. Grant was a surveyor and pastoralist from the Darling Downs in Queensland. He had joined the 11th Light Horse Regiment in the early 1900s and was commanding officer when the Regiment went to Palestine in the First World War. In October 1917, Grant led the Regiment in the successful charge at Beersheba.
Profile portrait of Brigadier General William Grant, C.M.G., D.S.O. He served at Gallipoli and then in Sinai in command of the 11th Light Horse Regiment. In August 1917 he took command of the 4th Brig
Formal portrait of Lieutenant Colonel (Lt Col) M W J Bourchier (later Brigadier Honourable M W J Bourchier CMG DSO VD) who commanded the 4th (Victorian) Light Horse Regiment. He led his regiment in th
Standard British army issue lance with bamboo shaft, steel lance head and pointed shoe, and a leather thong and grip at the centre of the shaft. National flags were not carried by the light horse re
Red wool bunting triangular lance pennant with a white cotton hoist. A pair of cotton tape ties is attached to the bottom of the hoist. The pair that would originally have been attached to the top of
Beersheba, Palestine, 1917-11. Turkish prisoners of war (POWs) stand in a long line after their capture in the successful charge on Beersheba by the 4th and 12th Australian Light Horse Regiments. Two
Beersheba, Palestine. 1917. The grave of 572 Corporal John Thomas Reynolds, 11th Light Horse Regiment (11ALH), who died on 16 November 1917 of wounds received in the charge for Beersheba in which alli
