10th LHR, AIF

10th Australian Light Horse Regiment

Embarkation: Headquarters.

Embarkation Information.

The 10th LHR Headquarters Section embarked from Fremantle, Western Australia on 8 February 1915. The ship was:

 HMAT A47 Mashobra

The men.

The following is a list in alphbetical order of the men who comprised the Headquarters Section of the 10th LHR and are recorded on the embarkation rolls as having embarked from Fremantle, Western Australia on 8 February 1915.

In listing the men, they are only identified by full name and AIF Regimental Service Number or as an officer as their rank status fluctuated often, even at embarkation, making it an impossible to give each man their correct rank on embarkation. Officers were not given a service number during the Great War. [See: The Australian Light Horse - Structure, Regimental Service Number.]

Edward William Arundel, AIF Regimental Service Number: 541.

William John Atkinson, AIF Regimental Service Number: 28.

Frank Lee Bach, AIF Regimental Service Number: 6.

James Edwin Bax, AIF Regimental Service Number: 37.

Lyell Cecil Bean, AIF Regimental Service Number: 25.

James Bentley, Officer.

Henry Berry, AIF Regimental Service Number: 19.

Noel Murray Brazier, Officer.

Horace Bertram Brede, AIF Regimental Service Number: 10.

John Anderson Brown, AIF Regimental Service Number: 11.

John Hugh Burns, AIF Regimental Service Number: 510.

Daniel Bygraves, AIF Regimental Service Number: 32.

Thomas James Byrne, AIF Regimental Service Number: 27.

Frederick William Carter, AIF Regimental Service Number: 382.

George Frederick Carthew, AIF Regimental Service Number: 12.

Frank Marshall Dobbin, AIF Regimental Service Number: 29.

James William Everington, AIF Regimental Service Number: 1.

Ernest Robert Fitt, AIF Regimental Service Number: 8.

James Fitzmaurice, AIF Regimental Service Number: 30.

Frederick Leopold Fraser, AIF Regimental Service Number: 22.

William Gilbert, AIF Regimental Service Number: 35.

Rupert George Gunn, AIF Regimental Service Number: 24.

Herbert Hallett, AIF Regimental Service Number: 524.

Frederick William Hay, AIF Regimental Service Number: 5.

Charles Robert Heppingstone, AIF Regimental Service Number: 508.

Montague Charles Hyatt, AIF Regimental Service Number: 3.

Robert Edward Jackson, Officer.

Neil Sydney Lancet, AIF Regimental Service Number: 119.

Reginald Legge, AIF Regimental Service Number: 7.

Allan Joseph Love, Officer.

Joseph David Lown, AIF Regimental Service Number: 20.

Beresford Mcmahon, AIF Regimental Service Number: 31.

John Flood Nagle, AIF Regimental Service Number: 26.

William Henry Pescud, AIF Regimental Service Number: 509.

Raymond Quartermaine, AIF Regimental Service Number: 461.

Thomas Edward Raine, AIF Regimental Service Number: 134.

Norman John Regan, AIF Regimental Service Number: 14.

Walter Charles Robinson, Officer.

George Rosevear, AIF Regimental Service Number: 2.

Bertram Simpson, AIF Regimental Service Number: 15.

Hubert Ulrich, AIF Regimental Service Number: 17.

Claude Henry Vautin, AIF Regimental Service Number: 540.

Ebenezer Ward, AIF Regimental Service Number: 18.

Edward Alexander Weston, Officer.

Robert Wray Woods, AIF Regimental Service Number: 511.

AWM8, 10/15/1 - 10 LHR [Light Horse Regiment] (February 1915)

Further Reading:

10th Australian Light Horse Regiment, AIF, History 

10th Australian Light Horse Regiment, Contents 

Battles where Australians fought, 1899-1920

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Diaries of AIF Servicemen

Bert Schramm

During part of the course of his military service with the AIF, 2823 Private Herbert Leslie Schramm, a farmer from White's River, near Tumby Bay on the Eyre Peninsular, kept a diary of his life. Bert was not a man of letters so this diary was produced with great effort on his behalf. Bert made a promise to his sweetheart, Lucy Solley, that he would do so after he received the blank pocket notebook wherein these entries are found. As a Brigade Scout since September 1918, he took a lead part in the September 1918 breakout by the Allied forces in Palestine. Bert's diary entries are placed alongside those of the 9th Light Horse Regiment to which he belonged and to the 3rd Light Horse Brigade to which the 9th LHR was attached. On this basis we can follow Bert in the context of his formation.

 Bert Schramm's Diary, 5 February 1919

Bert Schramm's Handwritten Diary, 5 - 8 February 1919

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Diaries

Bert Schramm

Wednesday, February 5, 1919

Bert Schramm's Location - Tripoli, Lebanon.

Bert Schramm's Diary -  I cannot understand not receiving any mail as this is the first time I haven't received letters since I have been here. Latest semi official news says we embark for home sometime in May. So God help us if we have to put another three or four months in this cursed place, enough to drive one mad. But of course growling will do me no good.

9th Light Horse Regiment War Diary

9th Light Horse Regiment Location - Tripoli, Lebanon.

9th Light Horse Regiment War Diary - 1000 - 1100 Ceremonial drill.

Shaw, Lieutenant OJ; and, three Other Ranks proceeded on leave to Egypt.

Thirteen Other Ranks proceeded to Moascar for early repatriation.

1400 Inter - Regimental football 9th Light Horse Regiment versus 10th Light Horse Regiment.

Won by 10th Light Horse Regiment 7 goals 8 behinds to 4 goals 5 behinds.

Darley, TH, With the Ninth Light Horse in the Great War, Adelaide, Hassell Press, 1924.

Next: Bert Schramm's Diary, 6 February 1919

Further Reading:

9th Light Horse Regiment AIF War Diary - Complete day by day list

Bert Schramm Diary

Bert Schramm Diary - Complete day by day list

Additional Reading:

Darley, TH, With the Ninth Light Horse in the Great War, Adelaide, Hassell Press, 1924.

Citation: Bert Schramm's Diary, 5 February 1919

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Lille

France, 16-17 August 1918

Lille, situated fifteen kilometres south-east of Armentieres, France, was the scene of two famous air raids against German airfields on the city's western outskirts on 16 and 17 August 1918. Both attacks involved No. 2 and No. 4 squadrons of the Australian Flying Corps (the former equipped with S.E.5a fighters and the latter with Sopwith Camel scouts) along with two British squadrons of the 80th Wing, Royal Air Force - a total of 60-65 aircraft. The first raid was directed against Haubourdin, five kilometres southwest of the city, and the second at Lomme an equal distance to the city's north-west. The attacks were effectively carried out by the two Australian squadrons - No. 4 (under Captain Harry Cobby) leading, followed by No. 2 (Captain Murray Jones) - while the British squadrons kept guard above against approaching enemy aircraft. In what the Official History terms 'a riot of destruction', 54 enemy aircraft were wrecked on the ground along with workshops and hangars.

Extracted from the book produced by Chris Coulthard-Clark, Where Australians Fought - The Encyclopaedia of Australia's Battles, Allen and Unwin, Sydney, 1998, p. 155.

Additional References cited by Chris Coulthard-Clark:

F.M. Cutlack (1923) The Australian Flying Corps in the Western and Eastern Theatres of War, Sydney: Angus & Robertson.

Battles where Australians fought, 1899-1920

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10th LHR, AIF

10th Australian Light Horse Regiment

Embarkation: Machine Gun Section.

Embarkation Information.

The 10th LHR Machine Gun Section embarked from Fremantle, Western Australia on 8 February 1915. The ship was:

 HMAT A47 Mashobra

The men.

The following is a list in alphbetical order of the men who comprised the Headquarters Section of the 10th LHR and are recorded on the embarkation rolls as having embarked from Fremantle, Western Australia on 8 February 1915.

In listing the men, they are only identified by full name and AIF Regimental Service Number or as an officer as their rank status fluctuated often, even at embarkation, making it an impossible to give each man their correct rank on embarkation. Officers were not given a service number during the Great War. [See: The Australian Light Horse - Structure, Regimental Service Number.]

Alexander Bolton, AIF Regimental Service Number: 44.

Owen William Robert Brede, AIF Regimental Service Number: 42.

Willing Charles Brown, AIF Regimental Service Number: 43.

Arthur Darrell Carson, AIF Regimental Service Number: 45.

Allan James Cooke, AIF Regimental Service Number: 46.

William James Cox, AIF Regimental Service Number: 47.

Herbert Creeper, AIF Regimental Service Number: 48.

Robert Calder Crowther, AIF Regimental Service Number: 38.

James Arthur Dean, AIF Regimental Service Number: 63.

George Raymond Field, AIF Regimental Service Number: 40.

Kenneth William Gilmour, AIF Regimental Service Number: 50.

Walter Bamford Hale, AIF Regimental Service Number: 51.

Leonard Hall, AIF Regimental Service Number: 52.

Warwick Clive Heath, AIF Regimental Service Number: 53.

Basil Bridgeford Hick, AIF Regimental Service Number: 54.

Thomas Crockett Keay, AIF Regimental Service Number: 55.

William Harold Lilly, AIF Regimental Service Number: 62.

Francis William Fellowes Lukis, AIF Regimental Service Number: 39.

Thomas Lawrence Mooney, AIF Regimental Service Number: 56.

Henry Riseborough, AIF Regimental Service Number: 537.

Horace Clement Hugh Robertson, Officer.

Vincent James Rogers, AIF Regimental Service Number: 57.

Herbert Earl Saunders, AIF Regimental Service Number: 58.

Albert Leslie Tate, AIF Regimental Service Number: 59.

Frederick Thompson, AIF Regimental Service Number: 60.

John Ernest Wallish, AIF Regimental Service Number: 61.

John Newlands West, AIF Regimental Service Number: 41.

AWM8, 10/15/1 - 10 LHR [Light Horse Regiment] (February 1915)

Further Reading:

10th Australian Light Horse Regiment, AIF, History 

10th Australian Light Horse Regiment, Contents 

Battles where Australians fought, 1899-1920

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Diaries of AIF Servicemen

Bert Schramm

During part of the course of his military service with the AIF, 2823 Private Herbert Leslie Schramm, a farmer from White's River, near Tumby Bay on the Eyre Peninsular, kept a diary of his life. Bert was not a man of letters so this diary was produced with great effort on his behalf. Bert made a promise to his sweetheart, Lucy Solley, that he would do so after he received the blank pocket notebook wherein these entries are found. As a Brigade Scout since September 1918, he took a lead part in the September 1918 breakout by the Allied forces in Palestine. Bert's diary entries are placed alongside those of the 9th Light Horse Regiment to which he belonged and to the 3rd Light Horse Brigade to which the 9th LHR was attached. On this basis we can follow Bert in the context of his formation.

 Bert Schramm's Diary, 4 February 1919

Bert Schramm's Handwritten Diary, 31 January - 4 February 1919

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Diaries

Bert Schramm

Tuesday, February 4, 1919

Bert Schramm's Location - Tripoli, Lebanon.

Bert Schramm's Diary -  More mail arrived today but none for me but I had two letters from Jim. He was in Belgium doing very well. Toby arrived back from leave today.

9th Light Horse Regiment War Diary

9th Light Horse Regiment Location - Tripoli, Lebanon.

9th Light Horse Regiment War Diary - 1000 - 1100 Organised games.
1415 200 all ranks proceeded mounted to Palm Tree Concert Party in Tripoli Theatre.

Stephens, Lieutenant HH; and, 5 Other Ranks returned from leave in Egypt. Lieutenant Hannaford; and, 19 Other Ranks marched in from Moascar.

Darley, TH, With the Ninth Light Horse in the Great War, Adelaide, Hassell Press, 1924.

Next: Bert Schramm's Diary, 5 February 1919

Further Reading:

9th Light Horse Regiment AIF War Diary - Complete day by day list

Bert Schramm Diary

Bert Schramm Diary - Complete day by day list

Additional Reading:

Darley, TH, With the Ninth Light Horse in the Great War, Adelaide, Hassell Press, 1924.

Citation: Bert Schramm's Diary, 4 February 1919

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