9th LHR, AIF

Pro Gloria et Honore - For Glory and Honour

Regimental March -  Marching Through Georgia

The Diary

1914

Friday, January 2, 1914

See 4th Military District, South Australia for militia activities.

1915

Saturday, January 2, 1915

9th Light Horse Regiment Location - Broadmeadows, Victoria

9th Light Horse Regiment War Diary - Organising, training and equipping of troops.

1916

Sunday, January 2, 1916

9th Light Horse Regiment Location - Heliopolis, Egypt

9th Light Horse Regiment War Diary - No Entry

1917

Tuesday, January 2, 1917

9th Light Horse Regiment Location - Hod Masaid, Sinai

9th Light Horse Regiment War Diary - The Regiment undertook routine work for the day. The weather was very cold and wet.

1918

Wednesday, January 2, 1918

9th Light Horse Regiment Location - Latron, Palestine

9th Light Horse Regiment War Diary - Led horses under Ragless, Captain BB, arrived at 1000.

The Regiment moved mounted and gained the remainder of the Brigade at 1230.

The Brigade moved to Latron arriving at a point one mile south of Latron at 1535.

The Regiment bivouacked for the night.

1919

Thursday, January 2, 1919

9th Light Horse Regiment Location - Tripoli, Lebanon

9th Light Horse Regiment War Diary - 1000 - 1100 - Swordsmanship mounted.

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Sources:

See: 9th Australian Light Horse Regiment, Contents

Further Reading:

9th Light Horse Regiment AIF

Bert Schramm Diary

9th Australian Light Horse Regiment, Roll of Honour 

Battles where Australians fought, 1899-1920

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Gallipoli Campaign - 1915-16

13th Light Horse Regiment

AIF

Roll of Honour

Poppies on the Roll of Honour, Australian War Memorial, Canberra

The Roll of Honour contains the names of all the men from the 13th Light Horse Regiment known to have given their lives during the Gallipoli Campaign - 1915 - 1916.

Roll of Honour

 

931 Trooper John Henry FINCH, Died of wounds, 16 November 1915.

950 Trooper Edgar Henry FYVIE, Killed in action, 11 December 1915.

 

966 Trooper Thomas GILBERT, Died of wounds, 16 November 1915.

 

258 Trooper Thomas William HAYNES, Killed in action, 7 October 1915.

 

355 Trooper Bertram McCARTHY, Died of wounds, 19 September 1915.

520 Trooper James Allan McDOUGALL, Died of Disease, 4 October 1915.

341 Trooper Neil McMILLAN, Died of wounds, 25 November 1915.

 

401 Trooper Charles Thomas POOL, Killed in action, 12 December 1915.

 

32 Sergeant William Lennard ROBERTS, Killed in action, 27 November 1915.

 

471 Trooper George THORNHILL, Killed in action, 23 September 1915.

 

921 Trooper Clive UPTON, Died of wounds, 26 November 1915.

 

493 Trooper Roy Cameron WELMAN, Killed in action, 9 December 1915.

 

Lest We Forget

Further Reading:

13th Light Horse Regiment, AIF

Gallipoli Campaign - 1915-16

Gallipoli Campaign - 1915-16, Unit Casualties, AIF, Roll of Honour

Light Horse Battles

Battles where Australians fought, 1899-1920

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9th LHR, AIF

Pro Gloria et Honore - For Glory and Honour

Regimental March -  Marching Through Georgia

The Diary

1914

Thursday, January 1, 1914

See 4th Military District, South Australia for militia activities.

1915

Friday, January 1, 1915

9th Light Horse Regiment Location - Broadmeadows, Victoria

9th Light Horse Regiment War Diary - Organising, training and equipping of troops.

1916

Saturday, January 1, 1916

9th Light Horse Regiment Location - Heliopolis, Egypt

9th Light Horse Regiment War Diary - No Entry

1917

Monday, January 1, 1917

9th Light Horse Regiment Location - Hod Masaid, Sinai

9th Light Horse Regiment War Diary - Moved out of Hod to Kilo 139 and bivouacked 1/2 mile south east of railway. Three enemy aeroplanes flew westward overhead.

1918

Tuesday, January 1, 1918

9th Light Horse Regiment Location - Kefr Rut, Palestine

9th Light Horse Regiment War Diary - In bivouac at Kefr Rut. There was heavy rain all day.

1919

Wednesday, January 1, 1919

9th Light Horse Regiment Location - Tripoli, Lebanon

9th Light Horse Regiment War Diary - Morning short New Year Church services. [Voluntary]

3rd Light Horse Brigade Mounted Sports eventuated today. The weather was perfect. Large numbers of visitors from other units attended, also many civilians. The 9th Light Horse Regiment scored well. The results as follows: -

Tent pegging with lance - 1st - Runn, 956 Sergeant HE; 2nd McIntosh, 1589 Lance Corporal WP.

Tilting the ring - 1st Trooper E Newton

Non Commissioned Officers flutter - 1st - Kincaid, 653 Lance Corporal AE.

Troopers flutter - 2nd Ferguson, Trooper SA.

Bleechmore, Major C, Ragless, Captain BB, Hogan, Lieutenant LR; and, 5 Other Ranks returned from leave in Egypt.

Previous: 9th LHR AIF War Diary, 31 December

Next: 9th LHR AIF War Diary, 2 January

Sources:

See: 9th Australian Light Horse Regiment, Contents

Further Reading:

9th Light Horse Regiment AIF

Bert Schramm Diary

9th Australian Light Horse Regiment, Roll of Honour 

Battles where Australians fought, 1899-1920

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The Battle of Broken Hill, New South Wales, 1 January 1915

Photographs

The following collection of photographs have been extracted from the various newspapers that reported on the event. 

Further Reading:

The Battle of Broken Hill, New South Wales, 1 January 1915

The Battle of Broken Hill, New South Wales, 1 January 1915, Roll of Honour

Australian Battles

Battles where Australians fought, 1899-1920

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The Battle of Broken Hill, New South Wales, 1 January 1915

Richard Nicholaus John Resch [aka Fletcher]

[Sydney Mail, 13 January 1915, p. 12.]

Lieutenant Resch is none other than Richard Nicholaus John Resch [aka Fletcher] (b. 1881 Wilcannia - d. 1960 Chatswood), the nephew of Emile Resch, the founder of Resch's Brewery interests, well known to New South Welshmen of an earlier era.

Resch served in South Africa with the 1st Australian Horse. He took part in the Relief of Kimberly and the various campaigns in the Orange Free State from February to May 1900, including operations at Paardeberg, Dreifontein, Poplar Grove, and Zand River. Subsequent to that the unit moved into the Transvaal and to the west of Pretoria including actions at Zilikats Nek, 2 August 1900, then east of Pretoria with actions at Belfast and Middleburg. Resch was awarded the Queen's South African Medal with five clasps - Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, Driefontein and Belfast. Resch was a genuine Boer War Veteran and no slouch as a soldier.

It turns out that Resch came to Broken Hill in 1908 to manage the Brewery for his uncle until 1914 when he took over the whole business. In 1912 he married Emma Ann I Fletcher (b. 1879 Cowra - d. 1962 Chatswood) at Broken Hill.

Resch was commissioned a Lieutenant with the Senior Cadets in 1911, a position he retained for over a decade. He also was appointed as an Area Officer for Broken Hill. At the same time he was Adjutant for the 82nd Infantry Battalion. In March 1915 he was given full command of the Battalion while the Commanding Officer was absent on AIF duties. So taking command of the situation was something Resch was familiar with, so too was fighting a battle.

Emile Resch, Richard Resch's uncle, was a very popular man around town. He was one of the key committee men and founders of the German Club which was burnt down after the battle on 1 January 1915. When Emile Resch died in 1930, there was a huge funeral for him with tributes coming from all quarters.

So why did the rioting mob in Broken Hill burn down his club?

One upshot of this episode was to prompt Resch to change his German sounding name to something more Anglo-Saxon so he adopted his wife's maiden name Fletcher in June 1916 and remained so for the rest of his life. Ironically Edmund Resch had been the Honorary Consul for the Netherlands in New South Wales for many years.

The final link between the Resch family and the brewery along with hotel chain was severed in 1924 when Tooth and Co. Ltd. of Sydney made an offer too good to refuse for the business.

The family retired to the pursuits of the wealthy, a role which involved a social scene, charity works and internecine squabbles in the courts.

Further Reading:

The Battle of Broken Hill, New South Wales, 1 January 1915

The Battle of Broken Hill, New South Wales, 1 January 1915, Roll of Honour

Australian Battles

Battles where Australians fought, 1899-1920

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