Soldiers of the 20th Reinforcements, 9th Light Horse, Adelaide |
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| Title : | Soldiers of the 20th Reinforcements, 9th Light Horse, Adelaide |
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| Source : | B 57357 | ||
| Date of creation : | ca. 1918 | ||
| Format : | Photograph | ||
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Soldiers of the 20th Reinforcements, 9th Light Horse, Adelaide. Front row, second from right: Claude Leahy. Leahy, a butcher, was born in Mt. Gambier. He enlisted on 24 June 1915 and embarked aboard RMS Malwa on 27 July 1916. He was killed in action in Palestine on 31 October 1917 and is buried in the Beersheba War Cemetery. |
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| Related names : | Leahy, Claude |
| Further reading : | Bean, C. E. W. Gallipoli mission, Sydney : ABC Enterprises in association with the Australian War Memorial for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 1990 Bou, Jean. Light Horse : a history of Australia's mounted arm, Cambridge ; Port Melbourne, Vic. : Cambridge University Press, 2009 Carlyon, Les. The great war, Sydney : Pan Macmillan Australia, 2006 Gammage, Bill. The broken years : Australian soldiers in the Great War, Ringwood, Vic. : Penguin Books, 1990 Kent, David. From trench and troopship : the experience of the Australian Imperial Force, 1914-1919, Alexandria, N.S.W. : Hale & Iremonger , 1999 Macdougall, Anthony. Australians at war : a pictorial history, Nobel Park, Vic. : Five Mile Press, 2002 Perry, Roland. The Australian light horse : the magnificent Australian force and its decisive victories in Arabia in World War I, Sydney : Hachette Australia, 2009 Robertson, John. Anzac and Empire : the tragedy & glory of Gallipoli, [Richmond, Vic.] : Hamlyn Australia, 1990 Luckins, Tanja. The gates of memory : Australian people's experiences and memories of loss in the Great War, Fremantle, W.A. : Curtin University Books, 2004 McKernan, Michael. The Australian people and the Great War, West Melbourne : Nelson, 1980 |
| Internet links : | 9th Light Horse [Australian War Memorial] AIF Database: Australian Anzacs in the Great War 1914-1918 [Australian Defence Force Academy] Anzac Day Commemoration Committee (Queensland) See: History: World War 1 Australian Light Horse Association Australians at War [Department of Veterans' Affairs] Australian War Memorial See: Australians at War: Australian Military History Overview: First World War 1914-1918 World War I and its Aftermath 1914 - 1921 [New South Wales High School Certificate (HSC) online] |
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