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9th Australian Light Horse Regiment, Roll of Honour

Citation: 9th LHR AIF War Diary, 6 April

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Saturday, 5 April 2008

9th LHR AIF War Diary, 5 April
Topic: AIF - 3B - 9 LHR

9th LHR, AIF

9th Light Horse Regiment

War Diary, 5 April

Pro Gloria et Honore - For Glory and Honour

Regimental March - Marching Through Georgia

The Diary

1914

Sunday, April 5, 1914
See 4th Military District, South Australia for militia activities.

1915

Monday, April 5, 1915
9th Light Horse Regiment Location - Mena Camp, Egypt.
9th Light Horse Regiment War Diary - No entry.
Carew Reynell Diary - No entry.

1916

Wednesday, April 5, 1916
9th Light Horse Regiment Location - Serapeum, Egypt.
9th Light Horse Regiment War Diary - No entry.

1917

Thursday, April 5, 1917

9th Light Horse Regiment Location - Deir el Belah

9th Light Horse Regiment War Diary - General Officer in Command inspected Hotchkiss Guns. Gunnery practice carried out in afternoon.

100 men sent out on fatigues to Deir el Belah

1918

Friday, April 5, 1918

9th Light Horse Regiment Location - El Kubeibeh

9th Light Horse Regiment War Diary - 1135 Moved via Richon le Zion to Selmieh. When two miles south of Yasur practiced signalling to aeroplane by means of ground panel.

Arrived at Selmieh 1630 and bivouacked on high ground 1,000 yards north east of Selmieh village.

1919

Saturday, April 5, 1919

9th Light Horse Regiment Location - Zagazig

9th Light Horse Regiment War Diary - B Squadron relieved 3rd Machine Gun Squadron personnel at No 3 Post Belbeis line. Ghurkhas relived Aikman, Lieutenant GE; and, the 23 Other Ranks, C Squadron, at Abu el Akdar Station.

Afterwards, Aikman, Lieutenant GE; and, 23 Other Ranks, C Squadron, then relieved 3rd Machine Gun Squadron personnel at Numbers 1 and 2 Posts, Belbeis Line. 3rd Machine Gun Squadron personnel on relief returned to 3rd Machine Gun Squadron Headquarters.

1800 Mounted Squadron passed to command of General Officer in Command Belbeis Sector. Luxmoore, Captain EM, with two troops returned from reconnaissance.

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

Further Reading:

9th Australian Light Horse Regiment, Roll of Honour

Citation: 9th LHR AIF War Diary, 5 April

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Friday, 4 April 2008

9th LHR AIF War Diary, 4 April
Topic: AIF - 3B - 9 LHR

9th LHR, AIF

9th Light Horse Regiment

War Diary, 4 April

Pro Gloria et Honore - For Glory and Honour

Regimental March - Marching Through Georgia

The Diary

1914

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

1915

Sunday, April 4, 1915
9th Light Horse Regiment Location - Mena Camp, Egypt.
9th Light Horse Regiment War Diary - No entry.
Carew Reynell Diary - No entry.

1916

Tuesday, April 4, 1916
9th Light Horse Regiment Location - Serapeum, Egypt.
9th Light Horse Regiment War Diary - No entry.

1917

Wednesday, April 4, 1917

9th Light Horse Regiment Location - Deir el Belah

9th Light Horse Regiment War Diary - Hotchkiss Gun troops paraded and commenced firing practice on beach.

1918

Thursday, April 4, 1918

9th Light Horse Regiment Location - Wadi Sukhreir

9th Light Horse Regiment War Diary - 1000 Moved to El Kubeibeh near Deiran arriving at 1500 and bivouacked for the night.

1919

Friday, April 4, 1919

9th Light Horse Regiment Location - Zagazig

9th Light Horse Regiment War Diary - Kerley, 2752 Trooper HS, tried by FGCM [Field General Court Martial].

2 mounted troops patrolled Zagazig 0930 - 1130 reporting all quiet.

Previous: 9th LHR AIF War Diary, 3 April

Next: 9th LHR AIF War Diary, 5 April

Sources:

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 Australian Light Horse Regiment, Roll of Honour

Citation: 9th LHR AIF War Diary, 4 April

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Thursday, 3 April 2008

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

9th LHR, AIF

9th Light Horse Regiment

War Diary, 3 April

Pro Gloria et Honore - For Glory and Honour

Regimental March - Marching Through Georgia

The Diary

1914

Friday, April 3, 1914
See 4th Military District, South Australia for militia activities.

1915

Saturday, April 3, 1915
9th Light Horse Regiment Location - Mena Camp, Egypt.
9th Light Horse Regiment War Diary - No entry.
Carew Reynell Diary - On the following Sunday, ie 3 April, the Artillery and Infantry started leaving Mena Camp for Alexandria and by the end of the week the bulk of the Australian and NZ Infantry and Artillery had gone from Mena and Heliopolis.

1916

Monday, April 3, 1916
9th Light Horse Regiment Location - Serapeum, Egypt.
9th Light Horse Regiment War Diary - No entry.

1917

Tuesday, April 3, 1917
9th Light Horse Regiment Location - Deir el Belah
9th Light Horse Regiment War Diary - The Regiment undertook routine work for the day.
Twelve Hotchkiss Guns received from Brigade and divided one per troop. The Lewis Guns being handed back.

1918

Wednesday, April 3, 1918

9th Light Horse Regiment Location - El Mejdel

9th Light Horse Regiment War Diary - 1130 Moved to Wadi Sukhreir, north of Esdud arriving there at 1430 and bivouacked for the night. Owing to anthrax being prevalent in vicinity no grazing of horses allowed.

1919

Thursday, April 3, 1919

9th Light Horse Regiment Location - Zagazig

9th Light Horse Regiment War Diary - 0530, One troop patrolled streets of Zagazig 0530 - 0630.

Luxmoore, Captain EM, MC, two troops Mounted Squadron proceeded on 5 days reconnaissance along Simbillawein Light Railway to enforce Proclamation issued a few days previous, ordering all material removed from railway to be returned and placed in position. Two members of this patrol lost their rifles, one was subsequently recovered.

Previous: 9th LHR AIF War Diary, 2 April

Next: 9th LHR AIF War Diary, 4 April

Sources:

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 Australian Light Horse Regiment, Roll of Honour

Citation: 9th LHR AIF War Diary, 3 April

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Wednesday, 2 April 2008

First Wassa, Egypt, April 2, 1915, John "Jack" Jensen's Account
Topic: BatzO - Wassa

First Wassa

Egypt, 2 April 1915

John "Jack" Jensen's Account

Wassa District after the riot.

Account by 955 Private John "Jack" Jensen

Part transcription of a letter from 955 Private John "Jack" Jensen, 1st Battalion, H Company, written on 28 August 1915 while in England due to wounds received at Gallipoli. This section of his letter deals with his interpretation of the events that surrounded First Wassa.

The last few days we had in Egypt I shall never forget as three nights running there were riots in & about Cairo. On good friday there was a big row in one of the main streets in Cairo. I think I told you once before that Cairo is a very immoral place in fact they say that it is the worst town in the world. Some streets there are nothing but brothels & houses of infamy where every possible vice under the sun exists. Of course some of our men had been going to these places & had got diseases of different kinds & as a (what?) our chaps had a grievance against these places. Finally to finish up with one of the Manchester soldiers who were also stationed in Egypt found his sister in one of them. She had left England as a servant to some lady who had taken her to Egypt & left her there. I dare say you have heard of that sort of thing it is called the white slave traffic here in England. Anyway this girl went from bad to worse until finally she way found dancing in what they call a Can-Can hall that is a dozen or so women dancing perfectly naked in a big hall & exposing their person to every kind of indignity both by themselves & also the onlookers. It is just as well that I cannot tell you everything that goes on here as it would only grieve you. This Manchester chap managed to have a talk with his sister & tried to get her away. She was only too willing to go but the people she was with would not let her & they threw the brother out of a window as a result he was in hospital for nearly a week. When he got right he came in the camp & told our chaps & asked them to help him. At first they could not find the girl again but at last she was found in a particularly vile house. This was a day or two before Good Friday & that day being a holiday about 500 of our chaps & some New Zealanders & English troops went in to raid these houses. When they got in there a good many got drunk & they were joined by a great many more also drunk so the affair ended in a riot. They got the girl out first & then set fire to the houses. The affair started about four oclock in the afternoon & was kept up until nearly midnight Shops were raided & windows broken everywhere. I was on guard that day & we were called out to go & stop it but only twenty of us could do nothing against nearly two thousand. They had a fire in the street & were throwing the furniture out of windows two & three storeys high on to it. Some of us went in & tried to put it out & a chair came out of a window three storeys high & hit one chap & nearly killed him. We carried him away & a few minutes after piano came out of the same window & fell with an awful crash on the pavement. All the strings seemed to break at once & it went off like a cannon. After that the Military Police charged the crowd on horseback firing their revolvers into them but the crowd threw broken bottles & stones at them. One policeman got badly hit & one eyecut out with a broken bottle & two of our chaps were hit by the revolver shots.

About eight oclock five hundred Manchester troops came with fixed bayonets & were told to charge. They charged alright but they wouldn’t go for our men so they gave them rifles & our chaps threw them on the fire. Then they turned & ran & our fellows followed them up with sticks A while after the South Australian Light Horse came but the horses wouldn’t face the fire & smoke A little after eleven oclock the Westminster Dragoons came. They looked all right as they were coming down the street with all their swords drawn & their horses going straight through the fire & smoke. This very soon cleared the street & then we went for the houses & took everybody prisoner that we found. We got about fifty Australians & some New Zealanders.

The girl who was the cause of all the trouble was sent to England. She was taken charge of by the Y.M.C.A. The men in camp collected over forty pounds to pay her passage & expenses back to England Of course the money was handed over to the Y.M.C.A.

Next night a riot started in the canteen of the Abbasieh camp. Somebody caught an Arab who was employed at the canteen making water in a tub of beer. The Arab was at once pulled & half killed. All the beer casks & tubs were broken & spilt & all the groceries & goods stolen & the place burned down.

The guard was called out again but by the time we got there everything was over & the camp was quiet except for the fire still burning.

On Sunday evening the New Zealanders burned down a picture show. The man had advertised a boxing match & doubled the admission & then showed just the same pictures as he usually did. So they burned his place down.

Further Reading:

Wassa

Citation: First Wassa, Egypt, April 2, 1915, John "Jack" Jensen's Account

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