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Oct 30, 2007 · The final phase of this all day battle was the famous mounted charge of the 4th Light Horse Brigade. Commencing at dusk, members of the brigade stormed through the Turkish defences and seized the strategic town of Beersheba.
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Dec 8, 2017 · Two Steps from Hell - Victory Charge of the Australian Light Horse, Beersheba - extended version. Frog Cake. 4.97K subscribers. Subscribed. 19K. 3.9M views 6 years ago.
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The charge of the Australian Light Horse at Beersheba, 1917, painted by George Lambert in 1920, shows troopers with bayonets in their hands and .303 rifles slung across their backs. Veterans complained that the formidable defences and determined Ottoman defenders are missing.
Learn about the last great cavalry charge by the 4th Australian Light Horse at Beersheba in 1917, during the Sinai and Palestine Campaign. See the battle map, media slideshow and location on the wall of the Australian War Memorial.
- Midnight's Sacrifice
- A 'Blight on History'
- The Living Legacy at Bloomfield
By then Haydon's war was over. Somehow, he had survived a bullet which had lodged in his back, narrowly missing his spine but leaving a hole large enough to put your fist in. He put the bullet in a tin and sent it back home to his mother in Australia as a memento. But Guy's horse, a celebrated black mare called Midnight, was dead. Midnight was kill...
Australia sent more than 135,000 horses to World War I, most of them as troop horses in the Middle East. Mr Haydon's family sent three of those horses. His great uncles Guy and Barney Haydon took their own horses to war, as did their neighbour and close friend Max Wright, who was given a horse by the Haydon family. Barney Haydon and Max Wright rode...
Mr Haydon's great uncles documented every aspect of their war service in letters, diaries and maps, and the records provide a vivid picture of the Australian Light Horse and the little known Middle East campaign. And there is also a living legacy. Long renowned for its fine horses, Mr Haydon's "Bloomfield" horse stud, near Murrurundi in the upper H...
Oct 30, 2013 · Horsemen on both sides would charge the guns during World War II. However, the Australian Light Horse’s headlong assault on the Turkish trenches at Beersheba was one of the most startling and inspiring triumphs in a seemingly endless war with more than its share of bloody debacles.
The Battle of Beersheba. On 31 October 1917, the heavily fortified town of Beersheba was the scene of a historic charge by the men of the 4th Australian Light Horse Brigade. Commencing at dusk, the brigade stormed the town, using their bayonets as swords in a highly unconventional charge.
