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 divisions which served in the Sinai and Palestine Campaign had been formed by Australian light horse, British yeomanry, and New Zealand mounted rifles brigades, supported by horse artillery, infantry and support troops. They were later joined by Indian cavalry and a small French cavalry detachment.
Desert Mounted Corps commander Harry Chauvel, (front row second left) and corps staff
Lieutenant-General Harry Chauvel commander Desert Mounted Corps
Indian cavalry lancer
Australian Light Horsemen
Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby
Field Marshal Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby, was a senior British Army officer and Imperial Governor. He fought in the Second Boer War and also in the First World War, in which he led the British Empire's Egyptian Expeditionary Force (EEF) during the Sinai and Palestine Campaign against the Ottoman Empire in the conquest of Palestine.
Field Marshal Viscount Allenby
Drawing of Allenby from journal "The War" c. 1917
The victorious Allenby dismounted, enters Jerusalem on foot out of respect for the Holy City, 11 December 1917
From left to right (holding papers): Weizmann, Allenby and the Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem delivering a speech.