Light Horse Regiment |
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| Title : | Light Horse Regiment |
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| Source : | B 28327 | ||
| Date of creation : | ca. 1916 | ||
| Format : | Photograph | ||
| Contributor : | State Library of South Australia | ||
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| Description : |
9th Light Horse Regiment led by Major HM Parsons. Born at Inman Valley, South Australia, Parsons landed at ANZAC Cove 22 May 1915. He returned to Australia in 1916 after being reported 'dangerously ill'. Parsons returned to active service in July 1916 to command a Squadron of the 9th Light Horse. In 1918 he received the D.S.O. He is buried at Victor Harbor. |
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| Related names : | Parsons, Harry Meshach, 1880-1957 |
| Coverage year : | 1916 |
| Further reading : | 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 Darley, T.H. With the Ninth Light Horse in the Great War, 1924 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 |
| Internet links : | 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 Australian Army History Unit [Department of Defence]: See: History in focus [several sections about World War One] Ninth Light Horse [Australian War Memorial] |
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