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
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.
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
Harry Chauvel
…known as the Desert Mounted Corps, thereby becoming the first Australian to command a corps, and the first to reach the rank of lieutenant general. At Beersheba in October 1917, his light horse captured the town and its vital water supply in one of history's last great cavalry charges. By September 1918, Chauvel…
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