Topic: AAB-Education Centre
Education Centre
The Australian Light Horse Studies Centre in conjunction with the various Education authorities in Australia, has embarked upon producing a program of instruction targeted initially towards the Later Adolescence band of scholars, characteristically those who are studying in Year 9 and 10 within Australia. Each lesson will be a self contained module. Some will be more difficult than others and graded accordingly.
Lesson 11 Aboriginal Light Horsemen
Resource - 11th Light Horse War Diary Index for 1918 - 1919
One of the few primary source documents available which details the daily activities of a unit is by through the War Diary. Here is an example.
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[From: AWM4, 10/16/33 - June 1918]
1 June 1918. The action is taking place in the Jordan Valley. Zoo and Vaux are two outposts overlooking Turkish positions. They also constitute the fromt line. At 4pm , the Turkish artillery fires two shells amongst a group of horses being led by the horseholders, possibly for the purposes of watering them. 2430 Pte John Johnston was badly wounded by the shelling and removed to the 4th Light Horse Field Ambulance for care. It was here that he died.
To put the story into a visual context the map below illustrates the location Zoo and Vaux outposts as mentioned in the War Diary entry.
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Zoo can be found near the intersection marked "15" while Vaux is near the intersection marked "9". The location of this map is in the Jordan Valley north of Jericho and west of the Jordan River.
Below is a brief index of the relevant 11th Light Horse Regiment War Diaries. The War Diaries are located on the Australian War Memorial site but for convenience, those months referred to in the chronology of Aboriginal soldiers from the 11th Light Horse Regiment are only listed here.
1918
AWM4, 10/16/28 - January 1918 (1.9Mb PDF file)
AWM4, 10/16/29 - February 1918 (1.3Mb PDF file)
AWM4, 10/16/30 - March 1918 (1.8Mb PDF file)
AWM4, 10/16/31 - March - April 1918 (3.2Mb PDF file)
AWM4, 10/16/32 - May 1918 (2.2Mb PDF file)
AWM4, 10/16/33 - June 1918 (1.4Mb PDF file)
AWM4, 10/16/34 - July 1918 (1.8Mb PDF file)
AWM4, 10/16/35 - August 1918 (1.2Mb PDF file)
AWM4, 10/16/36 - September 1918 (3Mb PDF file)
AWM4, 10/16/37 - October 1918 (1.2Mb PDF file)
AWM4, 10/16/38 - November 1918 (0.8Mb PDF file)
AWM4, 10/16/39 - December 1918 (1.3Mb PDF file)
1919
AWM4, 10/16/40 - January 1919 (1.4Mb PDF file)
AWM4, 10/16/41 - February 1919 (1.7Mb PDF file)
AWM4, 10/16/42 - March 1919 (1.9Mb PDF file)
AWM4, 10/16/43 - April 1919 (2.4Mb PDF file)
AWM4, 10/16/44 - May 1919 (1.5Mb PDF file)
AWM4, 10/16/45 - June 1919 (1.9Mb PDF file)
AWM4, 10/16/46 - July 1919 (1.9Mb PDF file)
AWM4, 10/16/47 - August 1919 (1.6Mb PDF file)
Further Reading:
Listing of Aboriginal Servicemen Biographies on this site
Reveille Articles on Aboriginals in the AIF
Citation: 11th Light Horse War Diary Index for 1918 - 1919, Lesson 11 Resource
