Australian Light Horsemen. My great-grandfather was one of them, and particpated in the charge on Beersheeba - the last successful cavalry charge in history. Pretty much all of them were Aussie country boys who'd been riding all of their lives (we were still very much an agrarian country then). As it happens, they were actually mounted infantry, but a charge was the only chance they had of pulling it off - which they did. A sad note: at the end of the war, they weren't allowed to bring their mounts home with them, so most of them shot them instead. I can remember my great-grandfather crying about that, even well into his eighties.
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Bless 'em all!
Australian Light Horsemen. My great-grandfather was one of them, and particpated in the charge on Beersheeba - the last successful cavalry charge in history. Pretty much all of them were Aussie country boys who'd been riding all of their lives (we were still very much an agrarian country then). As it happens, they were actually mounted infantry, but a charge was the only chance they had of pulling it off - which they did.
A sad note: at the end of the war, they weren't allowed to bring their mounts home with them, so most of them shot them instead. I can remember my great-grandfather crying about that, even well into his eighties.
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