4th Light Horse Brigade
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The 4th Light Horse Brigade was a mounted infantry brigade of the Australian Imperial Force serving in the Middle Eastern theatre of World War I. The brigade was initially formed as a part-time militi
Australian Light Horse monument at Beersheba
Members of the 12th Light Horse training at Holsworthy, 1915.
Photograph claimed to be of the charge of the 4th Light Horse Brigade at Beersheba, although it may be a re-enactment taken in February 1918.
Gunners of A Battery, Honourable Artillery Company, attached to the 4th Australian Light Horse Brigade, crouch between their 13 pounder quick fire field guns and a cactus hedge near Belah, Palestine, in March 1918.
Battle of Beersheba (1917)
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The Battle of Beersheba was fought on 31 October 1917, when the British Empire's Egyptian Expeditionary Force attacked and captured the Ottoman Empire's Yildirim Army Group garrison at Beersheba, begi
4th Light Horse Brigade
…on Beersheba, about 50 kilometres (31 mi) from Gaza. It was here that the 4th Light Horse Brigade fought its most notable action of the war during the Battle of Beersheba on 31 October 1917. During the initial part of the battle, the brigade had been dispersed and barely involved; however, later in the day two of the…
Beersheba in 1917
British infantry marching on the wire road across the desert between Bir el Mazar and Bardawil in February 1917
Beersheba Serai
Ottoman defences around Beersheba