Light Horse History General Sir Harry Chauvel Memorial
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Light Horse History
General Sir Harry Chauvel
Memorial plaque to Chauvel St Paul’s Cathedral Melbourne
Romani Sinai Desert Diorama from the Australian War Memorial
The Allied forces lost 202 men, mostly ANZACS The Turkish toll was 1, 250 killed, almost 4, 000 injured another 4, 000 captured
Michael Shanahan in hospital
Bill the Bastard statue, Murrumburra, NSW
Charge of Beersheba
Chaaarge! – Painting by Jennifer and Ron Marshall www. lighthorseart. com. au
Sloan ‘Scotty’ Bolton DCM and Elsie
Watering the horses, Beersheba
9 th Light Horse Jordan Valley
Light Horse troops near Megiddo with prisoners
Jenin – taken by 9 th and 10 th Light Horse regiments
Queensland Black Watch
Frank Fisher – 11 th Light Horse Rugby player and Great Grandfather of Cathy Freeman
Semakh Station – in 1918 and now restored
ANZAC monument Semakh
Chauvel leads the troops into Damascus
Governor’s residence - Damascus
Turkish prisoners of war
Balfour declaration
Accomplishments in 1918 � � Defeated 3 Turkish armies – that had decimated the ANZACs in Gallipoli Captured 75, 000 prisoners and 360 guns Ended the Ottoman Empire & the war in the Middle East Liberated ¾ of Palestine (today Jordan and northern Israel) and Syria (today Lebanon and Syria) & re-wrote the maps of the Middle East
ANZAC Light Horsemen � General Sir Harry Chauvel commanded a corps of 34, 000 mounted troops � They travelled 560 kilometres from Jaffa to Aleppo in 6 weeks on horseback � Attacked across a front of 160 kilometres � All accomplished while plagues of sickness were hitting the troops � Created the ANZAC Light Horse legend
Partition of the Ottoman Empire
Partition of Palestine Homeland for Arabs – 77% Became Jordan Homeland for Jews – 23% Became Israel
Formation of the current Middle East � � � Republic of Turkey - 1923 Kingdom of Iraq - 1932 Lebanese Republic – 1943 Syrian Arab Republic – 1946 Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan - 1946 State of Israel - 1948
Netanyahu - Be’er Sheva 2017 “Exactly 100 years ago brave Anzac Soldiers liberated Beersheba for the sons and daughters of Abraham and opened the gateway for the Jewish people to re-enter this stage of history”
“Had the Ottoman rule in Palestine and Syria not been overthrown by the Australians and the New Zealanders, the Balfour Declaration would have been empty words. . . It did not create the state of Israel but enabled its creation. ” – Malcolm Turnbull Oct 31, 2017 Be’er Sheva
Zechariah 12: 2 -3 Jerusalem – a cup that causes reeling to all the people around
- Spirale des classes sociales
- Light light light chapter 23
- Light light light chapter 22
- Light light light chapter 22
- Light horse breeds
- Where was sir william alexander smith born
- Othello put out the light
- Difference between light dependent and light independent
- Or the bending of light and the bouncing off of light
- Which of these materials block light
- Planos en cinematografia
- Where did general lee surrender to general grant?
- History of the microscope
- Speed of light history
- Components of history
- General history taking of patient
- Voluntary health agencies introduction
- Campbell university library
- Umass pharmacy residency
- Wwjh
- Invitation to memorial acclamations
- Turning point suffragist memorial
- Hubert kairuki memorial university faculty of medicine
- Anton anderson tunnel
- Jan marek memorial
- Rudra environmental solutions
- Memorial descritivo design de interiores
- Analepse
- Dennis h mahan memorial bridge
- Memorial tree tags
- Skyward ljisd
- Capitulo xvi memorial do convento
- Vasey esplanade trinity beach