Desert Mounted Corps
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The Desert Mounted Corps was an army corps of the British Army during the First World War, of three mounted divisions renamed in August 1917 by General Edmund Allenby, from Desert Column. These divisi
Desert Mounted Corps commander Harry Chauvel, (front row second left) and corps staff
Lieutenant-General Harry Chauvel commander Desert Mounted Corps
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Harry Chauvel
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General Sir Henry George Chauvel, was a senior officer of the Australian Imperial Force who fought at Gallipoli and during the Sinai and Palestine Campaign in the Middle Eastern theatre of the First W
Desert Mounted Corps
…Allenby's envisaged the employment of his mounted forces on a much larger scale than his predecessor had. So under the command of Lieutenant-General Harry Chauvel the Desert Mounted Corps was formed on 12 August 1917. It had been intended to use the name II Cavalry Corps, but the name was chosen in recognition…
Lieutenant General Sir Harry Chauvel (1919)
Officers of the Queensland Mounted Infantry. Chauvel is squatting in the front row, second from the right, holding a rifle.
Lieutenant Colonel H. G. Chauvel, 31 May 1902
Alexander Godley (centre) confers with fellow generals Harry Chauvel (left) and William Birdwood, Gallipoli, 1915.