Search Victorian Collections Search Close. Showing items matching officers and sergeants. McGrath served throughout the war with 8th Light Horse Regiment progressing through the officer ranks. As adjutant, he compiled a history of the regiment both from personal knowledge and the regiment's war diary. McGrath's successor as adjutant, Captain Austin, is believed to have had input into the document and for some years was thought to have been the originator.
The regiment served at Gallipoli where in a courageous but ill-fated charge at the Nek on 7 August it suffered horrendous casualties including Lieutenant Colonel White. Colonel Maygar died of wounds at Beersheba when the regiment was attacked by enemy aircraft while waiting to follow up the successful charge of the 4th LH Brigade on 30 October Photograph is glued to fluted plastic board.
Building on the strength and enthusiasm of the Tocumwal Troop other Troops were raised at Finley, Berigan and Jerilderie. Upon its return in April , the Regiment was redesignated 20th Pioneer Battalion. It was disbanded following the end of the war. This is one of a collection of photographs featuring a Light Horse regiment drawn from rural and regional Victoria in the period immediately prior to mobilisation for World War 2 Black and white photograph of 17 men in Light Horse uniform posed in two ranks, being the winning Troop in the Hutton Trophy and " No.
Tocumwal Troop. Winner of the Hutton Trophy and Several members of the Troop were unable to be present when this photo was taken. They include Troopers L. Allen, W. Quick, N. Harris, C. Scott, W. Scott, I. Brodie, K. Farley and others. It was under the command of Major John Wilkinson, an Albury solicitor and comprised about citizen soldiers, 4 guns and about 40 horses.
The Battery cooled its heels and continued to train till July when a second division was raised in the AIF and trained artillery was needed. The 13th Battery was adopted immediately by the townsfolk of Albury as the Albury Battery. The Battery served in France and Belgium and was involved in all the major battles fought by the Australians perhaps most notably at Noreuil where the Battery found itself surrounded but continued to fight till eventually the enemy was driven back.
