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5th Light Horse Brigade  

[Australian Mounted Division]

Formed Palestine 18 July 1918 and assigned to Australian Mounted Division

 

sub units

14th Light Horse
15th Light Horse
5th MG Sqn

Subunits:

  • 14th_lh.gif14th Light Horse Regiment 18 July 1918 to past November 1918
  • 15th_lh.gif15th Light Horse Regiment 18 July 1918 to past November 1918
  • French 1er Regiment Mixte de Cavalerie du Lavant 18 July 1918 to October 1918
  • New Zealand 2nd Machine Gun Squadron 18 July 1918 to past November 1918
  • 5th_Signal_Tp.gif (1141 bytes)5th Signal Troop 18 July 1918 to past November 1918

Commander:

Outdoors group portrait of Brigadier General G M Macarthur Onslow, Commander of the 5th Australian Light Horse Brigade, 1918-1919, and unidentified Headquarters' staff, in front of a tent.

Campaigns:

  • Palestine: 
    • Megiddo, 
    • Damascus

many details on this page from Ross Mallett's site

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