AUSTRALIAN MILITARY HISTORY –

The mounted soldier is one of the most evocative symbols in Australian military history. Now a celebrated part of Australia’s army heritage, the role and very existence of mounted troops in modern warfare was being called into question at the time of its most crowning military moments. Light horse regiments, particularly those that served in South Africa, Palestine and the trenches of Gallipoli, played a vital role in Australia’s early military campaigns. Based on extensive research from both Australia and Britain, this book is a comprehensive history of the Australian Light Horse in war and peace. Historian Jean Bou examines the place of the light horse in Australia’s military history throughout its existence, from its antecedents in the middle of the nineteenth century, until the last regiment was disbanded in 1944.

First Edition.

• xiv, 361 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 24 cm. #151225

• Contains bibliographical references (p. 331-349) and index.

  • Ancestors: Australia’s colonial mounted troops, 1803-99
  • Tough lessons: South Africa, 1899-1902
  • Hutton era: Founding the light horse, 1901-05
  • Unfulfilled promise: Militia light horse, 1905-20
  • Light-horseman 1: Citizen mounted troops and Australian society
  • Mounted rifles: Light horse at war, 1914-17
  • Cavalry: Light horse at war, 1917-19
  • Light-horsemen 2: Light-horseman at war
  • Final years: Light horse at home, 1921-44.

  • • Australia. Army. Australian Light Horse — History
    • Cavalry — Australia — History
    • World War, 1914-1918 — Cavalry operations — Australian Light Horse
    • World War, 1914-1918 — Regimental histories — Australia
    • World War, 1914-1918 — Campaigns — Palestine