Three young Australians join the army at the start of WWI and are assigned to the Australian Light Horse cavalry, taking part ...

The commanding officer the British assigned to the 39th Battalion in 1918 was Jewish Australian Lieutenant ... The official history of the Light Horse campaign states the “welcome which they ...

These victories made the charge on Beersheba viable. Chauvel, the first Australian to rise to Lieutenant-General within the British forces, thought there was still a chance to take this Turkish-held ...

“800 Horsemen who changed the world” tells the story of the Australian Light Horse charge at Beersheba in 1917. I expect sales of this book to reach new heights as the Beersheba centenary is ...

After the war he returned to farming and once again volunteered for military service when the First World War broke out, enlisting with the Australian Imperial Force on 20 August 1914. Maygar departed ...

He was educated in Melbourne, and in 1909 commanded a troop of light horse ... final assault on Beersheba. In 1918 after fighting through Palestine, he commanded a joint force in the final advance on ...

The boss of the Australian Trainers’ Association has taken aim at jockeys chief Matt Hyland and top rider Damian Lane in the latest instalment of the battle over the jockeys’ request to be ...