And today is .......

[happy_tiger]

Champion @krissy - your grandfather is one of the many Australian legends who have shaped our great southern land and its magnificent history.
Here's a tad more .....


Today we remember the charge of Beersheba by the Australian Light Horse during the third Battle of Gaza in Palestine.
As dusk fell on 31 October 1917, the 4th Light Horse Brigade, bayonets in hand, launched a horseback charge to seize control of the crucial town of Beersheba from the Ottoman Empire.
It was a vital component of the Allied forces' campaign to secure the Sinai Peninsula and ensure the shipping corridors along the Suez Canal remained open to Britain and its allies.
It is remembered as the last great cavalry charge and heralded the beginning of the end for Ottoman control of Palestine and ensured the name of Beersheba would be forever remembered in Australian history because of its daring cavalry charge.
The 4th Light Horse Brigade suffered a total of 35 killed and 39 wounded; of these, the 12th Light Horse Regiment suffered 20 killed and 19 wounded.
Lest we forget

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It was crazy thinking that so few were killed being totally unprotected facing machine guns, artillery fire and infantry fire and then hand to hand combat once they dismounted

 

[happy_tiger]

My grandfather was one of those brave horsemen.

Yes it would have taken a different type of Bravery to have fought in any war , but particularly WW1 and WW2

 

[krissy]

Yes it would have taken a different type of Bravery to have fought in any war , but particularly WW1 and WW2

The crazy part was he lied about his age to enlist. They wanted good horsemen & the boys from country towns that had ridden all their lives were exactly what they needed. To a lot of them they thought they were off on the adventure of a lifetime, they had no idea of what lay ahead of them.

 

[happy_tiger]

The crazy part was he lied about his age to enlist. They wanted good horsemen & the boys from country towns that had ridden all their lives were exactly what they needed. To a lot of them they thought they were off on the adventure of a lifetime, they had no idea of what lay ahead of them.

Yes ....my Grandfather was in WW2 ....but he had probably the most bizarre role you can imagine
He was in the RAF , and his job was in reconnaissance planes drawing the German cities they would bomb
He was a talented artist as you can imagine