The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
The Turks made a stubborn fight for this place which was eventually taken by the Australian Light Horse. After attacking from two points the Australians finally charged on horseback with fixed bayonets. The casualties were fairly heavy in this fighting.
Outdoor portrait of 957 Trooper Louis Joseph Rinaldi, 1st Australian Light Horse Regiment, mounted on horse. Inscribed “yours sincerely Louis”. Inscription on verso reads “photo taken about an hoour b
Beersheba, Palestine. 1917-11-01. Members of the Australian Light Horse (ALH) with their horses the morning after they charged Beersheba and captured the town from the Turks. (Donor N. MacDonald)
The remains of a gasometer and a concrete shelter at Zonnebeke in the Ypres sector where the Australians met with stubborn resistance during the fighting at the end of September 1917. Photograph take
AN AUSTRALIAN LIGHT HORSE COLUMN NCLUDING FIELD AMBULANCE IN FOREGROUND, RETURNING ALONG THE OLD CARAVAN ROAD BETWEEN EGYPT AND PALESTINE, AFTER ATTACKING THE TURKS AT EL MAZAR, SINAI, 1916-09-17. (DO
The shredded remains of a Pattern 08 haversack. The haversack is missing most of the proper right side and half the base. There are two large holes in the flap. This damaged haversack, found in no m
1916-09. A 2ND AUSTRALIAN LIGHT HORSE (2ALH) FIELD AMBULANCE TENT PITCHED AT BIR EL MAZAR, 24 MILES SOUTH WEST OF GAZA, DURING A RAID ON THE TURKS. THE AUSTRALIAN CASUALTIES IN THIS RAID WERE TWO KILL
