2nd LHMGS, AIF

2nd Light Horse Machine Gun Squadron

Roll of Honour

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

The Roll of Honour contains the names of all the men known to have served at one time with the 2nd Australian Light Horse Machine Gun Squadron and gave their lives in service of Australia, whether as part of the 2nd Australian Light Horse Machine Gun Squadron or another unit.

Roll of Honour

 

Leslie John ABBERTON, Killed in Action, 30 November 1917.

 

Alfred Henry BARKER, Killed in Action, 5 November 1917.

Stanley BRENNAN, Died of Illness, 14 February 1919.

 

Alfred CHAPMAN, Killed in Action, 5 November 1917.

Douglas CURRAN, Died of Wounds, 20 April 1918.

 

James Judge DAVIES, Died of Illness, 22 October 1918.

Eric Fane DE SALIS, Killed in Action, 5 November 1917.

 

Frank William FREESTONE, Killed in Action, 10 November 1917.

 

Roy GEORGE, Died of Wounds, 8 November 1917.

 

Clifton Henry James HOAD, Killed in Action, 5 November 1917.

Henry Albert HOLDGATE, Killed in Action, 10 November 1917.

 

William Henry LACEY, Died of Wounds, 22 November 1917.

William James Hamilton LOWE, Killed in Action, 28 August 1918.

 

William McCARTHY, Killed in Action, 5 November 1917.

Harrie Linden MURPHY, Killed in Action, 28 August 1918.

 

Ernest John NORTON, Killed in Action, 19 April 1917.

 

Harold Reath OLVER, Killed in Action, 4 August 1916.

 

Ralph POOLE, Died of Wounds, 20 November 1917.

 

Cornelius James RYAN, Died of Wounds, 4 May 1918.

 

Herbert Edward SAMUELS, Killed in Action, 9 August 1916.

Lionel Francis Watson SMITH, Killed in Action, 5 August 1916.

 

Harold Edwin WILLIAMS, Killed in Action, 5 November 1917.

 

Essington Lowther ZOUCH, Died of Wounds, 17 November 1917.

 

Lest We Forget

Further Reading:

2nd Australian Light Horse Machine Gun Squadron, AIF

Battles where Australians fought, 1899-1920

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4th LHMGS, AIF

4th Light Horse Machine Gun Squadron

Roll of Honour

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

The Roll of Honour contains the names of all the men known to have served at one time with the 4th Australian Light Horse Machine Gun Squadron and gave their lives in service of Australia, whether as part of the 4th Australian Light Horse Machine Gun Squadron or another unit.

Roll of Honour

 

John Allen COOPER, Died of Illness, 22 October 1918.

 

William George DALZIEL, Died of Illness, 14 December 1918.

 

Clements Francis GOOD, Killed in Action, 4 May 1918.

Edward GREEN, Killed in Action, 3 May 1918.

Cecil Harcourt GROVE, Killed in Action, 10 November 1917.

 

Harold KINGSTON, Died of Illness, 30 October 1918.

 

Marcus Bowerman MUIR, Died of Wounds, 30 September 1918.

 

Arthur NEWMAN, Died of Illness, 19 October 1918.

 

Harry Haw RATHBONE, Killed in Action, 19 April 1917.

John TACHON, Died of Illness, 22 October 1918.

Stanley TAYLOR, Died of Illness, 25 October 1918.

Albert James TERRY, Killed in Action, 25 September 1918.

 

Hubert Walker WEST, Killed in Action, 25 September 1918.

Lest We Forget

Further Reading:

4th Australian Light Horse Machine Gun Squadron, AIF

Battles where Australians fought, 1899-1920

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Updated: Wednesday, 23 September 2009 9:36 PM EADT

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3rd LHMGS, AIF

3rd Light Horse Machine Gun Squadron

Roll of Honour

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

The Roll of Honour contains the names of all the men known to have served at one time with the 3rd Australian Light Horse Machine Gun Squadron and gave their lives in service of Australia, whether as part of the 3rd Australian Light Horse Machine Gun Squadron or another unit.

Roll of Honour

 

David BAKER, Died of Illness, 21 October 1918.

James William BARRY, Killed in Action, 11 May 1918.

Herbert Alexander BELL, Killed in Action, 9 August 1916.

Felix Baron BOCKELBERG, Killed in Action, 3 May 1918.

Josiah Clifton BONEHAM, Died of Illness, 15 October 1918.

Sydney BROOKS, Died of Illness, 15 October 1918.

John Reginald BUCKLAND, Died of wounds, 9 August 1916.

 

Allan James COOKE, Died of Wounds, 9 August 1916.

John Currie CUMMING, Killed in Action, 31 October 1917.

 

Loy Joseph DORAN, Died of Accident, 26 June 1917.

 

Arthur Roy EARL, Died of Accident, 26 June 1917.

 

Percy Alexander GIBBS, Died of Wounds, 12 November 1917.

Thomas Ignatius GIBNEY, Killed in Action, 22 August 1918.

 

Richard HEINRICH, Killed in Action, 13 October 1917.

Frederick Edward HICKS, Killed in Action, 9 January 1917.

Albert Reginald HOWLETT, Died of Wounds, 10 November 1917.

William Irvine HUTCHINSON, Died of Wounds, 31 October 1917.

 

Ernest Leslie JACKSON, Killed in Action, 3 November 1917.

 

John Thomas Joseph LIDDY, Died of Illness, 3 March 1919.

Richard Bright LITCHFIELD, Died of Wounds, 17 November 1917.

 

George McCURDY, Killed in Action, 9 January 1917.

Charles Cecil MERRITT, Killed in Action, 1 November 1917.

Charles Robert METHVEN, Died of Wounds, 19 April 1917.

 

Alan Dexter PALMER, Died of Wounds, 6 August 1916.

Richard Rowett POND, Killed in Action, 9 August 1916.

George Albert PRICE, Died of Illness, 26 July 1917.

Henry Albert Franklin PRICE, Died of Wounds, 20 April 1917.

 

Richard Thomas RANDALL, Died of Wounds, 23 April 1917.

James RUSHTON, Killed in Action, 3 May 1918.

 

Francis William SLATTERY, Killed in Action, 17 September 1916.

Joseph SMITH, Killed in Action, 19 April 1917.

Clifton James SPARGO, Died of Illness, 15 October 1918.

John Thomas STILL, Died of Wounds, 1 November 1917.

 

Frank TIMMS, Killed in Action, 10 November 1917.

William George TRINDER aka William George PODMORE, Died of Wounds, 6 June 1918.

 

Roderick William URQUHART, Killed in Action, 7 August 1916.

 

Lest We Forget

Further Reading:

3rd Australian Light Horse Machine Gun Squadron, AIF

Battles where Australians fought, 1899-1920

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Updated: Tuesday, 9 March 2010 9:50 PM EAST

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 2nd Anglo-Boer War

Battles

Contents

Items

Outlines

South African (Second Boer) War: 1899-1902 Historical Outline

Chronology

South African (Second Boer) War: 1899-1902, Chronology

2nd Anglo-Boer War, Boer War Battles fought by Australians, 1899 - 1902, Chronology

 

Australian newspaper accounts

Preparing the first Australian contingents for South Africa

Off to the war, the first NSW Contingent departs Sydney, Town and Country Journal, 4 November 1899

The NSW Lancers, Town and Country Journal, 9 December 1899

Our War Letters, Town and Country Journal, 23 December 1899

Elands River, Town and Country Journal, 1 September 1900

A Letter Home, Town and Country Journal, 24 November 1900

Further Reading:

2nd Anglo-Boer War, Battles

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el Qatiya

Sinai, 23 April 1916

Outline

The Affair at el Qatiya was a small and very successful action undertaken by the Ottoman forces against the British forces scattered around el Qatiya and Bir el Dueidar on 23 April 1916. The raid created panic in the British command and highlighted the need for a greater commitment to strengthening the defences of Romani, eventually leading to a battle at that place.

The following is extracted from the book written by Lindsay Baly called Horseman, Pass By,  Chapter 3, Mounted in Sinai.

On 22 April 1916, the 5th Mounted Brigade were routed by just what they were there to prevent: a Turkish surprise attack. The survivors fell back to the canal and the next day the 2nd Light Horse Brigade were ordered to Kantara, Duedir and Romani by forced march, to retrieve the position. A long doggerel poem of my father's, much prized by his fellows and his family, says:

We knew no destination or what might come about.

But guessed there's something doin' by the way we hustled out.

We headed for Kantara and pushed on all that day

Till 9 PM, while halting, tucked some bully beef away.

We rode across the Suez,

By the pontoon bridge that night,

And kept on making eastwards until dark gave way to light.

And late that night, still riding, we learned what was our mission:

Wounded men on Red Cross cars explained the whole position.

Small, straggling groups of horsemen were also making back.

The Turks had caught 'em napping and they'd taken to the track.

We questioned, as we passed them, 'What's up? Abdul scooped the pot?'

Their answer, coming wearily, 'Aye, chum. We've 'ad it 'of

This was it. Forget France and England, this was the big one.

This was what they were for.

The Yeomanry camps told their stories. There were dead men and horses, the occasional one still dying. Stragglers and wanderers, horses stampeding in at the scent of water. Small heaps of cartridge cases beside individuals who had burrowed in the sand and fought to the death. Others were bayoneted through their blankets. Too much of a good thing in beer and wine for officers' messes. Men tortured by Bedouins, garrotted with the thin baling wire used for horse fodder. The Bedouins had hung around the camps cadging food, pretending to be friendly, spying for the Turks; then they killed and stripped the soldiers, crying 'Finish British! Turks Kantara! Turks Port Said! Turks Cairo!' ANZAC policy, made then and never relaxed, was to treat them as hostile. The 6th and 7th Regiments buried 80 Yeomanry at Katia, then eight days later another 300 corpses were found. The only outpost that had held out was at Duedir, twelve miles from the canal, the most insignificant, and the only one manned by infantry: 100 Royal Scots Fusiliers.

Further Reading:

el Qatiya, Sinai, 23 April 1916

Battles where Australians fought, 1899-1920

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Updated: Sunday, 13 September 2009 10:32 PM EADT

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