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Beersheba's capture was the initial step in the campaign which ended in the British -Australian conquest of Palestine. In it's strategic result, the blow shook the Turko-German defence system and opened for Allenby the main south road to the Holy City.</B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="9309bc80.jpg" border=0 width="411" height="200" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>A Painting by George Lambert depicting the famous charge of the Light Horse at Beersheba</B></div> <div> <B>which began at dawn on 31st Oct 1917. Six days later the Turks had been crushed</B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> Across the Palestine desert on 31 October 1917 moved a long line of Australian and New Zealand cavalry, led by Major-General Sir Henry George Chauvel. Orders had come from the Middle East Commander-in-Chief, Field Marshal Allenby, for a full-scale daylight onslaught on Beersheba, caravanserai headquarters of Turko-German troops in the area. Chauvel and the Australian mounted divisions had ridden from Asluj township over barren, stone-strewn hills. Because of the intense heat and the presence of snipers, the advance was made by night. Smoking and loud conversation were forbidden. But despite all precautions, the surrounding hills echoed with the beat of the Australians' horses' hooves. Forewarned, Turkish scouts raced their camels back to Beersheba to report the advance.</div> <bR> <div> Meanwhile, to Beersheba's south-west, artillery commander Sir Philip Chetwood bombarded the enemy's defence line. A powerful battery of 104 howitzers and field-mortars sent a hail of explosives into the shallow and ill-protected Turkish advance trenches.The moment the barrage opened, sleeping Beersheba woke into violent activity. Troops and guns were hurled into the affray at all threatened points. Under a pall of battle fumes, British parties crept forward cutting the barbed wire entanglements. A swift dash to the trenches by the Allied troops was possible. So far the operation had been a complete success. Now it was time for Chauvel to strike from the east.</div> <bR> <div> Tel Es Saba</div> <div> Chauvel's first objective was the powerful redoubt of Tel Es Saba, a huge mound faced with cliffs, which towered sharply from the plain.From his vantage point on a hill seven kilometres to Beersheba's south-east, Chauvel saw a stream of Turks pouring in to reinforce the redoubt. He decided to begin the onslaught before a further increase of strength on the Tel made his task impossible.At 9 a.m.  on   I  November , Brigadier General George Macarthur-Onslow led the 7th Light Horse Regiment down the scorched valley in the first phase of the attack. The instant the Turks spotted them, a hail of shrapnel ripped into the Australians' ranks.</div> <div> At full gallop the cavalry charged relentlessly on. By now the regiment was directly under the frowning cliff face of Tel Es Saba.</div> <div> From an almost vertical position above them, the Turks fired wildly, disorganised by the suddenness of seeing the enemy so close. Then three Australians, led by Corporal E. Picton, dismounted and ran up the slope.</div> <div> Fighting with determination, they managed to disarm or kill more than 40 Turkish riflemen. But the pitted and stony slopes effectively prevented a further advance. Picton and his men retired to cover.</div> <div> At the same time, the New Zealanders and the Ist Light Horse Brigade began an assault on the redoubt. From 3000 metres the Somerset Battery sent over a heavy barrage to cover the Anzacs' advance. The Turks replied almost instantly. Their first flight of shells cut the Anzac vanguard to ribbons.</div> <div> Despite an almost impenetrable curtain of steel, the New Zealanders jumped from their horses, drove them back across the plain and began to climb the Tel. It all happened so quickly the Turks thought the Anzacs were retreating and fired at the runaway horses. As the Turks blazed away at the wrong targets, New Zealand infantrymen picked them off from below, before creeping up under the lee of the redoubt and charging with fixed bayonets. With all the fight knocked out of them, 132 Turks surrendered while the rest fled down the far side of the Tel towards Beersheba.</div> <bR> <div> • Beersheba</div> <div> Then, at 3 p.m., Chauvel received a startling and peremptory command from Allenby. He was ordered to `capture Beersheba today, in order to secure water and take prisoners'.</div> <div> It was a tough task. Only a few hours of daylight remained. The troops, many of whom had suffered light wounds, were exhausted. At 4.30 p.m. the cavalry moved through the late afternoon light at a fast canter. From the left flank machine-gun fire rained from Turkish Hill LL80. But the pressure was relieved when the Essex Battery silenced the Turkish artillery.</div> <div> Halfway down the valley, the horsemen found enemy riflemen standing firmly across</div> <div> the direct Beersheba route. Anzac horses, rearing as small arms fire tore into them, thudded to the ground. Clouds of dust, raised by thousands of camels, horses and men, made visibility almost impossible, but the cavalry charged on. Confused by the tenacity of the advance, the Turks couldn't take time off to lower their rifles' sights and their fire became erratic.</div> <div> Hurtling through a forest of enemy bayonets, the Anzac cavalry seized one trench and galloped on to the next. The second trench filled rapidly with dead as the Anzacs, using their bayonets like swords, thrust and slashed without quarter. In desperation, the Turkish leaders ordered their men to bayonet the horses' bellies. Soon dozens of disemboweled animals lay gasping out their lives in the hot dust.</div> <div> The Anzacs finally managed to round up most of the Turkish forward brigade. One trooper, his horse startled by the explosion of a grenade, galloped to a reserve trench. A Turk bullet shot his horse from under him and the beast plunged into the trench. When he came to, the Australian found five Turks standing nearby with their hands up in token of surrender.</div> <div> Meanwhile the 12th Brigade broke through a wide breach in the Turkish lines and galloped towards Beersheba. A frantic struggle followed. More than 60 Turks died as the brigade thrust toward the town's environs.</div> <div> As dusk fell, Australian starshells burst over the Turkish positions. In the streets of Beersheba, inhabitants and soldiers fled terror-stricken as the galloping cavalry rode them down. The Turks were desperate. They blew up wells and ammunition depots. Following a series of deafening explosions, vast mushroom-shaped clouds filled with flickering, violet-coloured flame shot high above Beersheba.</div> <div> By now most of the Turks, no longer believing Beersheba was impregnable, were in headlong retreat. With 738 prisoners, nine field-guns and three machine-guns in their hands, the Anzac regiments continued the pursuit beyond Beersheba and into the hills.</div> <div> As the Anzacs drank their fill at the few unsullied water springs, exultant messages flashed to Allenby's headquarters. The capture of Beersheba cleared the way for Allenby's advance on Gaza, Jaffa- and Jerusalem. With water wells at his disposal, the commander also controlled the arterial highway linking the Holy City to the coast.</div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B><IMG SRC="9321ba50.jpg" border=0 width="539" height="165" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> Thunder of a Light Horse Charge. Photo Australian War Memorial (AWM AO2684).</div> <bR> <bR> <div> Source - Front Line Dispatches - Australians at War @ Bay Books</div> <bR> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="696"><div> <B>Light Horse Links</B></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 745 WIDTH="696"><div> 1st LH Brigade </div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.awm.gov.au/units/unit_10549.htm" TARGET="_blank" TITLE="http://www.awm.gov.au/units/unit_10549.h"><U><U><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0ccffff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">1st Light Horse Regiment</U></U></A><A HREF="http://www.awm.gov.au/units/unit_10549.htm" TARGET="_blank" TITLE="http://www.awm.gov.au/units/unit_10549.h"><U> </U></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://www.awm.gov.au/units/unit_10551.htm" TARGET="_blank" TITLE="http://www.awm.gov.au/units/unit_10551.h"><U><U><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0ccffff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">2nd Light Horse Regiment</U></U></A><A HREF="http://www.awm.gov.au/units/unit_10551.htm" TARGET="_blank" TITLE="http://www.awm.gov.au/units/unit_10551.h"><U> </U></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://www.awm.gov.au/units/unit_10553.htm" TARGET="_blank" TITLE="http://www.awm.gov.au/units/unit_10553.h"><U><U><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0ccffff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">3rd Light Horse Regiment</U></U></A><A HREF="http://www.awm.gov.au/units/unit_10553.htm" TARGET="_blank" TITLE="http://www.awm.gov.au/units/unit_10553.h"><U> </U></A></div> <bR> <div> 2nd LH Brigade </div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.awm.gov.au/units/unit_10557.htm" TARGET="_blank" TITLE="http://www.awm.gov.au/units/unit_10557.h"><U><U><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0ccffff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">5th Light Horse Regiment</U></U></A><A HREF="http://www.awm.gov.au/units/unit_10557.htm" TARGET="_blank" TITLE="http://www.awm.gov.au/units/unit_10557.h"><U> </U></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://www.awm.gov.au/units/unit_10559.htm" TARGET="_blank" TITLE="http://www.awm.gov.au/units/unit_10559.h"><U><U><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0ccffff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">6th Light Horse Regiment</U></U></A><A HREF="http://www.awm.gov.au/units/unit_10559.htm" TARGET="_blank" TITLE="http://www.awm.gov.au/units/unit_10559.h"><U> </U></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://www.awm.gov.au/units/unit_10561.htm" TARGET="_blank" TITLE="http://www.awm.gov.au/units/unit_10561.h"><U><U><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0ccffff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">7th Light Horse Regiment</U></U></A><A HREF="http://www.awm.gov.au/units/unit_10561.htm" TARGET="_blank" TITLE="http://www.awm.gov.au/units/unit_10561.h"><U> </U></A></div> <bR> <div> 3rd LH Brigade </div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.awm.gov.au/units/unit_10563.htm" TARGET="_blank" TITLE="http://www.awm.gov.au/units/unit_10563.h"><U><U><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0ccffff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">8th Light Horse Regiment</U></U></A><A HREF="http://www.awm.gov.au/units/unit_10563.htm" TARGET="_blank" TITLE="http://www.awm.gov.au/units/unit_10563.h"><U> </U></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://www.awm.gov.au/units/unit_10565.htm" TARGET="_blank" TITLE="http://www.awm.gov.au/units/unit_10565.h"><U><U><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0ccffff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">9th Light Horse Regiment</U></U></A><A HREF="http://www.awm.gov.au/units/unit_10565.htm" TARGET="_blank" TITLE="http://www.awm.gov.au/units/unit_10565.h"><U> </U></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://www.awm.gov.au/units/unit_10567.htm" TARGET="_blank" TITLE="http://www.awm.gov.au/units/unit_10567.h"><U><U><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0ccffff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">10th Light Horse Regiment</U></U></A><A HREF="http://www.awm.gov.au/units/unit_10567.htm" TARGET="_blank" TITLE="http://www.awm.gov.au/units/unit_10567.h"><U> </U></A></div> <bR> <div> 4th LH Brigade </div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.awm.gov.au/units/unit_10555.htm" TARGET="_blank" TITLE="http://www.awm.gov.au/units/unit_10555.h"><U><U><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0ccffff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">4th Light Horse Regiment</U></U></A><A HREF="http://www.awm.gov.au/units/unit_10555.htm" TARGET="_blank" TITLE="http://www.awm.gov.au/units/unit_10555.h"><U> </U></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://www.awm.gov.au/units/unit_10569.htm" TARGET="_blank" TITLE="http://www.awm.gov.au/units/unit_10569.h"><U><U><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0ccffff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">11th Light Horse Regiment</U></U></A><A HREF="http://www.awm.gov.au/units/unit_10569.htm" TARGET="_blank" TITLE="http://www.awm.gov.au/units/unit_10569.h"><U> </U></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://www.awm.gov.au/units/unit_10571.htm" TARGET="_blank" TITLE="http://www.awm.gov.au/units/unit_10571.h"><U><U><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0ccffff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">12th Light Horse Regiment</U></U></A><A HREF="http://www.awm.gov.au/units/unit_10571.htm" TARGET="_blank" TITLE="http://www.awm.gov.au/units/unit_10571.h"><U> </U></A></div> <bR> <div> 5th LH Brigade </div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.awm.gov.au/units/unit_10575.htm" TARGET="_blank" TITLE="http://www.awm.gov.au/units/unit_10575.h"><U><U><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0ccffff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">14th Light Horse Regiment</U></U></A><A HREF="http://www.awm.gov.au/units/unit_10575.htm" TARGET="_blank" TITLE="http://www.awm.gov.au/units/unit_10575.h"><U> </U></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://www.awm.gov.au/units/unit_10577.htm" TARGET="_blank" TITLE="http://www.awm.gov.au/units/unit_10577.h"><U><U><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0ccffff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">15th Light Horse Regiment</U></U></A><A HREF="http://www.awm.gov.au/units/unit_10577.htm" TARGET="_blank" TITLE="http://www.awm.gov.au/units/unit_10577.h"><U> </U></A></div> <bR> <div> Unattached Units </div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.awm.gov.au/units/unit_10573.htm" TARGET="_blank" TITLE="http://www.awm.gov.au/units/unit_10573.h"><U><U><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0ccffff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">13th Light Horse Regiment</U></U></A><A HREF="http://www.awm.gov.au/units/unit_10573.htm" TARGET="_blank" TITLE="http://www.awm.gov.au/units/unit_10573.h"><U> </U></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://www.awm.gov.au/units/unit_20855.htm" TARGET="_blank" TITLE="http://www.awm.gov.au/units/unit_20855.h"><U><U><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0ccffff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">II ANZAC (XXII Corps) Mounted Regiment</U></U></A><A HREF="http://www.awm.gov.au/units/unit_20855.htm" TARGET="_blank" TITLE="http://www.awm.gov.au/units/unit_20855.h"><U> </U></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://www.awm.gov.au/units/unit_13624.htm" TARGET="_blank" TITLE="http://www.awm.gov.au/units/unit_13624.h"><U><U><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0ccffff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Imperial Camel Corps</U></U></A><A HREF="http://www.awm.gov.au/units/unit_13624.htm" TARGET="_blank" TITLE="http://www.awm.gov.au/units/unit_13624.h"><U> </U></A></div> <bR> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 103 WIDTH="696"><div> <B><IMG SRC="57c4d670.png" border=0 width="77" height="103" ALIGN="LEFT" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#FFFFCC" FACE="Verdana" ><A HREF="http://www.lighthorse.org.au/" TARGET="_blank" TITLE="http://www.lighthorse.org.au/"><U><B>The Australian Light Horse Association</B></U></A></FONT></div> <bR> <div> I<FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#CCCC99" FACE="Verdana" >f you are interested in the Lighthorse this is definitely the site to go to. A  forum with lots of users and information about the Light Horse</FONT></div> <bR> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 80 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="b003d4c0.gif" border=0 width="61" height="76" ALIGN="LEFT" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><A HREF="http://balder.prohosting.com/anzacs/index.html" TARGET="_blank" TITLE="http://balder.prohosting.com/anzacs/inde"><U><B>5th Light Horse Regiment</B></U></A></div> <div> Australian Imperial Force  1914 - 1919</div> <div> A biographical listing of the 2,543 men who passed through the regiment</div> <div> during the Great War, 1914 - 1919</div> <bR> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 93 WIDTH="696"><div> <TABLE BORDER="2" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="68" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#000000" BORDERCOLORDARK="#555555" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" ALIGN="LEFT" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 66 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="673333c0.png" border=0 width="51" height="60" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <div> <A HREF="http://members.iinet.net.au/~spooner/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://members.iinet.net.au/~spooner/"><U><B>10th Light Horse</B></U></A></div> <div> The 10th Light Horse Regiment is one of the country's oldest and best known Light Horse Regiments. It can trace its origins to 7th June 1900 when the order was given for the unit to be raised as the Western Australian Mounted Infantry. </div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 82 WIDTH="696"><div> <A HREF="http://users.netconnect.com.au/~ianmac/horse.html" TARGET="_blank" TITLE="http://users.netconnect.com.au/~ianmac/h"><U>The Victorian Light Horse Regiments</U></A></div> <div> The 4th, 8th, (part of the 9th) and 13th Regiments of Light Horse were raised in Victoria. Machine Gun Squadrons formed part of each Light Horse Regiment. Part of the 3rd MG Squadron (attached to the 3rd Light Horse Brigade, ANZAC Mounted Division) and part of 4th MG Squadron (attached to 4th Australian Light Horse Brigade, Australian Mounted Division) comprised Victorians.</div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <div>   <script type="text/javascript" language="javascript">  </script> <script type="text/javascript" language="javascript" src="http://www.statcounter.com/counter/frames.js"> </script> <noscript> <a href="http://www.statcounter.com" target="_top"><img src="http://www.statcounter.com/counter.php?usr=anzacs&java=0" alt="StatCounter - Free Web Tracker and Counter" border="0"/></a> </noscript>   </div> <div>  <style>  </style>  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFCC66" FACE="Arial" > <STYLE>  </STYLE>  </FONT></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>