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"At a mile distant their thousand hooves were stuttering thunder, coming at a rate that frightened a man - they were an awe inspiring sight, galloping through the red haze - knee to knee and horse to horse - the dying sun glinting on bayonet points..." Trooper Ion Idriess
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Another entry from the book written by Lieutenant Colonel Hüseyin Hüsnü Emir, called Yilderim. Every day, one page of the book will be posted. This is Page 1.
Colonel Husni, Yilderim, Page 1.
[Click on page for a larger print version.]
Citation: Colonel Hüsnü, Yilderim, Page 1
9th LHR, AIF
War Diary, 8 July
Pro Gloria et Honore - For Glory and Honour
Regimental March - Marching Through Georgia
The Diary
1914
Wednesday, July 8, 1914
See 4th Military District, South Australia for militia activities.
1915
Thursday, July 8, 1915
9th Light Horse Regiment Location - Reserve Gully
9th Light Horse Regiment War Diary - No Entry.
3rd Light Horse Brigade War Diary - 8th Light Horse Regiment, four wounded. 281 in hospital and 71 in lines. Sick = 352. Auckland Mounted Rifles, one wounded.
Carew Reynell Diary - No Entry.
1916
Saturday, July 8, 1916
9th Light Horse Regiment Location - Roadhead Serapeum.
9th Light Horse Regiment War Diary - Routine work.
Training consisting of Rifle exercises and musketry and mounted work.
Patrols and outposts carried on as in previous week.
1917
Sunday, July 8, 1917
9th Light Horse Regiment Location - Abasan el Kebir
9th Light Horse Regiment War Diary - Church Parade.
Hogan, Lieutenant LR; and, 15 Other Ranks marched in from 3rd Light Horse Brigade Training Regiment and posted.
1918
Monday, July 8, 1918
9th Light Horse Regiment Location - Solomon's Pools
9th Light Horse Regiment War Diary - Kildea, Lieutenant FJ, returned from Junior Officers School, Richon le Zion.
O'Neil, 686 Trooper T, sentence promulgated - three months Imprisonment with Hard Labour [IHL].
1919
Tuesday, July 8, 1919
9th Light Horse Regiment Location - Moascar
9th Light Horse Regiment War Diary - 1000, Egyptian currency changed for British - embarkation instructions issued.
Previous: 9th LHR AIF War Diary, 7 July
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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
Battles where Australians fought, 1899-1920
Diaries of AIF Servicemen
Bert Schramm
8 July 1918
Bert Schramm
2823 Private Herbert Leslie SCHRAMM, a 22 year old Farmer from Whites River, South Australia. He enlisted on 17 February 1916; and at the conclusion of the war Returned to Australia, 10 July 1919.
During part of the course of his military service with the AIF, Bert Schramm 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 Offensive 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.
The Diaries
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Bert Schramm's Handwritten Diary, 7 - 12 July 1918
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Bert Schramm
Monday, July 8, 1918
Bert Schramm's Location - Solomon's Pools, Bethlehem, Palestine.
Bert Schramm's Diary - My birthday. Have just been warned to go to Cairo in the morning on duty.
9th Light Horse Regiment War Diary
9th Light Horse Regiment Location - Solomon's Pools, Bethlehem, Palestine.
9th Light Horse Regiment War Diary - Kildea, Lieutenant FJ, returned from Junior Officers School, Richon le Zion.
O'Neil, 686 Trooper T, sentence promulgated - three months Imprisonment with Hard Labour [IHL].
9th LHR AIF War Diary, 8 July
Darley
Darley, TH, With the Ninth Light Horse in the Great War, Adelaide, Hassell Press, 1924.
No Entry
Previous: Bert Schramm's Diary, 7 July 1918
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Sources Used:
Bert Schramm's DiaryNational Archives Service File.
Embarkation Roll, AWM8.
Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour
Nominal Roll, AWM133, Nominal Roll of Australian Imperial Force who left Australia for service abroad, 1914-1918 War.
War Diaries and Letters
All War Diaries and letters cited on this site should be read in conjunction with the Australian Light Horse Studies Centre, War Diaries and Letters, Site Transcription Policy which may be accessed at:
Australian Light Horse Studies Centre, War Diaries and Letters, Site Transcription Policy
Further Reading:
9th Australian Light Horse Regiment, AIF
9th Australian Light Horse Regiment, War Diary, Day by Day Account
Battles where Australians fought, 1899-1920
Citation: Diaries of AIF Servicemen, Bert Schramm, 8 July 1918
March past by the 4th Light Horse Regiment in Melbourne, 1914.
On 24 September 1914, the infantry and light horse formations training at Broadmeadows organised a march through Melbourne. Below is a picture of the 4th Light Horse Regiment, part of the the 1st Contingent, marching past the Federal Parliament building on a rain soaked Melbourne day.
Further Reading:
Broadmeadows Camp, Inducting Recruits, September 1914
One of the most important and authoritative books that was written by Lieutenant Colonel Hüseyin Hüsnü Emir, Turkish General Staff, a Turkish officer at the centre of major historical events in Palestine from 1917 to 1917. The book he wrote was called Yilderim which translates into English as either "lightning" or "thunderbolt". This was the name given to the Army formed under the command of General Falkenheyn in 1917. It fought in Palestine until the cessation of hostilities.
The book was 1st published in 1922 in Ottoman Script by the Turkish General Staff War History Department in Ankara. At that time, Turkey was in a state of internal chaos. Mustafa Kemal Pasha was still fighting against the Greeks and British. Hüsnü completed his book on 1 May 1921 in occupied Istanbul and joined the National forces of Mustafa Kemal Pasha in Anatolia with the manuscript. The 2nd edition was published in 2002. The translation presented here comes from the 1st edition.
Every day, one page of the book will be posted. This way, researchers unable to access this valuable resource will be able to see the war as it was fought on the other side of the trench, an important element in producing a balanced account of a particular action.
Citation: Colonel Hüsnü, Yildirim, Preface
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