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Friday, 20 June 2008

9th LHR AIF War Diary, 20 June
Topic: AIF - 3B - 9 LHR

9th LHR, AIF

9th Light Horse Regiment

War Diary, 20 June

Pro Gloria et Honore - For Glory and Honour

Regimental March - Marching Through Georgia

The following entries are extracted and transcribed from the 9th Light Horse Regiment War Diary, the originals of which are held by the Australian War Memorial. There are 366 entries on this site. Each day has entries as they occurred from 1914 to 1919. In addition to the 9th Light Horse Regiment War Diary, when appropriate, entries from the 3rd Light Horse Brigade War Diary and other regiments with the Brigade will also appear. Entries from the unit history, Darley, TH, With the Ninth Light Horse in the Great War, Adelaide, Hassell Press, 1924 will also appear from time to time. The aim is to give the broadest context to the story and allow the reader to follow the day to day activities of the regiment. If a relative happened to have served in the regiment during the Great War, then this provides a general framework in which the individual story may be told.

The Diary

1914

Saturday, June 20, 1914
See 4th Military District, South Australia for militia activities.

1915

Sunday, June 20, 1915

9th Light Horse Regiment Location - Walkers Ridge

9th Light Horse Regiment War Diary - Lieutenant Colonel Miell took over temporary command of 3rd Light Horse Brigade during temporary absence of Colonel FG Hughes.

No 4 Section reorganised.

Regiment now occupies position shown on Sketch 4.

Bomb from Sap 2 to 8 considered most likely objective for Turk attack and it was considered advisable to have one complete unit on this front.

3rd Light Horse Brigade War Diary - Visited trenches 29th Division.

Heavy shelling from Asia on Army Headquarters.

Destroyed two planes [French].

8th Light Horse Regiment to trenches.

Casualties: 8th Light Horse Regiment, two wounded. 9th Light Horse Regiment, one killed.

Kenneth Alan McKenzie Diary - Trenches. Bombardment at point.

Carew Reynell Diary - No entry.

1916

Tuesday, June 20, 1916

9th Light Horse Regiment Location - Roadhead Serapeum.

9th Light Horse Regiment War Diary - Routine training and patrol work.

1917

Wednesday, June 20, 1917

9th Light Horse Regiment Location - El Shellal

9th Light Horse Regiment War Diary - Syllabus of training to be carried out daily from 1400 to 1700 received from Brigade Headquarters. Copies issued to Squadrons.

The Regiment paraded mounted at 1330 and proceeded across the wadi and carried out dismounting for action returning to camp at 1730.

1918

Thursday, June 20, 1918

9th Light Horse Regiment Location - Talaat ed Dumm

9th Light Horse Regiment War Diary - Ten Other Ranks reported in from Descorps Reinforcement Camp, Jerusalem.

Hahn, Lieutenant HJ; and, two Other Ranks proceeded to school of instruction, El Arish.

1919

Friday, June 20, 1919

9th Light Horse Regiment Location - Tel el Kebir

9th Light Horse Regiment War Diary - Daily routine.

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See: 9th Australian Light Horse Regiment, Contents

Australian Light Horse Studies Centre, AIF War Diaries of the Great War, Site Transcription Policy

Further Reading:

9th Light Horse Regiment AIF

Bert Schramm Diary

9th Australian Light Horse Regiment, Roll of Honour

Battles where Australians fought, 1899-1920

Citation: 9th LHR AIF War Diary, 20 June

Posted by Project Leader at 12:01 AM EADT

Updated: Saturday, 7 August 2010 3:38 PM EADT

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