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A novel for high school readers, about a 16 year old australian boy who enlists in the australian light horse alongside his father, and discovers the true nature of war. Colour patches australians in world war 1 research guides. This page is for the new book australian light horse by phillip bradley which is about the middle east campaign in world war one ww1. After two failed attempts to attack gaza, allied forces decided to outflank it by turning the turkish line at beersheba. Most of the men were from the outback, had a special bond with their horses which were all brought from australia and they knew how to survive and fight in the desert.
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Text last corrected on 19 december 2014 by tabbers. By 1914, when australia joined the war against germany, there were 23 light horse regiments of militia volunteers. Australian light horse wwi collectables 19141918 australia played a huge role in the first world war. They were assigned to the new zealand mounted rifles brigade which, as part of the anzac australian and new zealand army corps mounted division with australian light horse brigades and royal horse artillery batteries, served in the sinai campaign of 1916 and the palestine campaign of 191718.
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