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Monday, 29 December 2008
9th LHR AIF War Diary, 29 December
Topic: AIF - 3B - 9 LHR

9th LHR, AIF

9th Light Horse Regiment

War Diary, 2 December

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

Tuesday, December 29, 1914

9th Light Horse Regiment Location - Broadmeadows, Victoria.

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

See: Broadmeadows 1909

 

1915

Wednesday, December 29, 1915

9th Light Horse Regiment Location - Heliopolis, Egypt.

9th Light Horse Regiment War Diary -  Application was made today to have the reinforcements of the South Australian Squadron of the 11th Light Horse Regiment sent to this camp to be attached to D Squadron for training.

 

1916

Friday, December 29, 1916

9th Light Horse Regiment Location - Hod Masaid, Sinai.

9th Light Horse Regiment War Diary - The Regiment undertook routine work for the day.

 

1917

Saturday, December 29, 1917

9th Light Horse Regiment Location - Khurbetha Ibn Harith, Palestine.

9th Light Horse Regiment War Diary - 0600 Remainder of Regiment moved forward to night outpost line. The line was advanced about 500 yards forward of night outpost line from Sq F25B to Sq Z30B and A. This line was consolidated and held as permanent line. Regimental Headquarters established in Sq Z30D.8.8. Enemy very quiet only a few desultory shots fired into 9th Light Horse Regiment section. Enemy observation posts in Sq F15d F15c and F8d Khirbit el Meidan. The country the Regiment advanced over was very rough and broken by wadis necessitating the using of pack horses in lieu of camels for transport of reserve ammunition etc.

3rd Light Horse Brigade War Diary - At 0615 10th Light Horse Regiment and 9th Light Horse Regiment moved forward to occupy main defensive line - Khurbetha Ibn Harith - Jurdeh, and were in position at 0930. Brigade Headquarters was established with 8th Light Horse Regiment in reserve in rear of Khurbetha Ibn Harith. The weather was now settled and fine. Throughout the night 29/30th December there was no enemy rifle or machine gun fire.

 

1918

Sunday, December 29, 1918

9th Light Horse Regiment Location - Tripoli, Lebanon.

9th Light Horse Regiment War Diary -  Voluntary church service as follows: - Church of England 0845 in American Church, Tripoli, other denominations at 1000 in Brigade area.

 

1919

Monday, December 29, 1919

9th Light Horse Regiment Location - Adelaide

9th Light Horse Regiment War Diary - Regiment disbanded.

 

 

Previous: 9th LHR AIF War Diary, 28 December

Next: 9th LHR AIF War Diary, 30 December

 

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 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, 29 December

Posted by Project Leader at 12:01 AM EAST
Updated: Thursday, 23 September 2010 9:47 AM EADT
Sunday, 28 December 2008
Bert Schramm's Diary, 29 December 1918
Topic: Diary - 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, 29 December 1918

 


Bert Schramm's Handwritten Diary, 28 December 1918 - 4 January 1919

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Diaries

Bert Schramm

Saturday, December 28, 1918

Bert Schramm's Location - Tripoli

Bert Schramm's Diary -  Nothing doing. More rain today.

 

 

9th Light Horse Regiment War Diary

9th Light Horse Regiment Location - Tripoli

9th Light Horse Regiment War Diary - Voluntary church service as follows: - Church of England 0845 in American Church, Tripoli, other denominations at 1000 in Brigade area.

 

Darley

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

No Entry

 

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, 29 December 1918


Posted by Project Leader at 11:01 PM EAST
Updated: Tuesday, 30 December 2008 1:07 PM EAST
Colonel Husnu, Yildirim, Page 175
Topic: Tk - Bks - Yildirim

Another entry from the book written by Lieutenant Colonel Hüseyin Hüsnü Emir, called Yildirim. Every day, one page of the book will be posted. This is Page 175.



Colonel Hüsnü, Yildirim, Page 175.

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This chapter deals with Hüsnü observations of the Turkish response to Beersheba on other parts of the battlefield.

 

Further Reading:

List of all Yildirim pages

 


Citation: Colonel Hüsnü, Yildirim, Page 175

Posted by Project Leader at 11:01 PM EAST
Updated: Tuesday, 30 December 2008 2:09 PM EAST
9th LHR AIF War Diary, 28 December
Topic: AIF - 3B - 9 LHR

9th LHR, AIF

9th Light Horse Regiment

War Diary, 28 December

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

Monday, December 28, 1914

9th Light Horse Regiment Location -  Broadmeadows Camp, Victoria. 

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

See: Broadmeadows 1909

 

1915

Tuesday, December 28, 1915

9th Light Horse Regiment Location - Heliopolis, Egypt.

9th Light Horse Regiment War Diary -  Received instructions to absorb all the reinforcements of 9th Light Horse Regiment, also that 4th Light Horse Brigade would probably be reformed and that D Squadron was to be kept separate. Drafted reinforcements to Squadrons.

Total parade state shows:

29 Officers, 31 Sergeants, 802 Other Ranks, Total 862

Of this number the strength of D Squadron is:

6 Officers, 6 Sergeants, 101 Other Ranks, Total 113

 

1916

Thursday, December 28, 1916

9th Light Horse Regiment Location - Hod Masaid, Sinai

9th Light Horse Regiment War Diary - The Regiment undertook routine work for the day. Scroop, 1601 Lance Corporal PG, died of wounds.

 

1917

Friday, December 28, 1917

9th Light Horse Regiment Location - Balin, Palestine.

9th Light Horse Regiment War Diary - Holding and consolidating line. One Squadron 8th Light Horse Regiment attached and used for consolidating support line.

At 0600 Wagg, Lieutenant BSW, with a strong patrol, reached Sq O1a without opposition. C Squadron sent a patrol to J6 central.

At 1200 Wagg, Lieutenant BSW, with his patrol entered Khurbetha Ibn Harith and found it had been evacuated by enemy during night.

1630 One officer and two troops from each Squadron under Siekmann, Major TA, moved and occupied line F25 central to Z30 central both inclusive. Line occupied by 1900.

3rd Light Horse Brigade War Diary - At 0600 strong patrols pushed out and at 1100 discovered Khurbetha Ibn Harith clear of enemy. Small enemy posts were located at Khirbit el Meidan. The country in which the Brigade was now operating was extremely high, rough and rocky and transport difficulties were increased. Camels were used and found to be very unsatisfactory over the high and rocky hills, and very slow in movement; their feet were cut on the rocks and their further use off the tracks was forbidden. Improvisations were made in places and wheeled transport was able to be brought forward to Units Headquarters. Parties from the local villages assisted in this work, receiving from three to seven Egyptian Pounds per day, according to working capacity. There was little enemy activity with the exception of occasional sniping throughout the day and night.

 

1918

Saturday, December 28, 1918

9th Light Horse Regiment Location - Tripoli

9th Light Horse Regiment War Diary - Eighty cases of Christmas of AIF Comforts arrived. Parsons, Major HM, Luxmoore, Captain EM; and, Shaw, Lieutenant OJ, proceeded to motor to Besherri for two days.

 

1919

Sunday, December 28, 1919

9th Light Horse Regiment Location - Adelaide

9th Light Horse Regiment War Diary - Regiment disbanded.

 

 

Previous: 9th LHR AIF War Diary, 27 December

Next: 9th LHR AIF War Diary, 29 December

 

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 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, 28 December

Posted by Project Leader at 12:01 AM EAST
Updated: Thursday, 23 September 2010 9:41 AM EADT
9th LHR, Roll of Honour, Percy George Scroop
Topic: AIF - 3B - 9 LHR

9th LHR, AIF

9th Australian Light Horse Regiment

Roll of Honour

Percy George Scroop

 

Percy George Scroop's name on the Roll of Honour, Australian War Memorial

 

Percy George Scroop

Service number: 1601

Rank: Lance Corporal [L Cpl]

Unit: 9th Australian Light Horse

Service: Army

Conflict: 1914-1918

Date of death: 28 December 1916

Cause of death: Illness (Dysentery)

Cemetery or memorial details: IRAQ 8 Baghdad (North Gate) War Cemetery

War Grave Register notes: SCROOP, Lce. Cpl. Percy George, 1601. 9th Australian Light Horse. Died of dysentery 28th Dec., 1916. Age 23. Son of James and Mary Elizabeth Scroop, of Coromandel Valley, South Australia. Angora Mem. 148.

Source: AWM145 Roll of Honour cards, 1914-1918 War, Army.

 

A brief military biography of Percy George Scroop from The AIF Project:

Regimental number1601
Place of birthClarendon, South Australia
SchoolCherry Gardens Public School, South Australia
ReligionMethodist
OccupationSawyer
AddressClarendon, South Australia
Marital statusSingle
Age at embarkation21
Next of kinMother, Mrs. Mary Scroop, Coromandell, Valley, South Australia
Enlistment date18 August 1915
Rank on enlistmentPrivate
Unit name9th Light Horse Regiment, 12th Reinforcement
AWM Embarkation Roll number10/14/3
Embarkation detailsUnit embarked from Adelaide, South Australia, on board HMAT A2 Geelong on 18 November 1915
Rank from Nominal RollLance Corporal
Unit from Nominal Roll9th Light Horse Regiment
Other details from Roll of Honour CircularDied of dysentry.
FateCaptured as Prisoner of War at Bir el Abd, 9 August 1916. Died of disease whilst a Prisoner of War, 28 December 1916.
Place of death or woundingAngora, Turkey
Age at death23
Age at death from cemetery records23
Place of burialBaghdad (North Gate) War Cemetery (Angora Memorial No. 148), Baghdad
Panel number, Roll of Honour,
  Australian War Memorial
7
Miscellaneous information from
  cemetery records
Parents: James and Mary SCROOP, Coromandel Valley, South Australia

 

Lest we forget

 

 

Further Reading:

9th Light Horse Regiment, AIF

9th Australian Light Horse Regiment, Roll of Honour 

Battle of Romani, Sinai, August 4 to 5, 1916 

Bir el Abd, Sinai, 9 August 1916

Battles where Australians fought, 1899-1920

 


Citation: 9th LHR, Roll of Honour, Percy George Scroop

Posted by Project Leader at 12:01 AM EAST
Updated: Wednesday, 16 September 2009 12:11 PM EADT

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