1st Australian Contingent (1914–15) Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) New Zealand and Australian Division (1915–16) Anzac Mounted Division (1916–19)
Equipment
Horse, rifle and bayonet
Engagements
World War I
Gallipoli Campaign
Battle of Sari Bair
Battle of the Nek
Sinai and Palestine Campaign
Battle of Romani
Battle of Magdhaba
Battle of Rafa
Second Battle of Gaza
Battle of Beersheba
Battle of Mughar Ridge
Capture of Jericho
First Transjordan attack on Amman
First Battle of Amman (1918)
Second Transjordan attack on Shunet Nimrin and Es Salt
Third Transjordan attack
Second Battle of Amman (1918)
Commanders
Notable commanders
Harry Chauvel Charles Frederick Cox
Insignia
Unit colour patch
Military unit
The 1st Light Horse Brigade was a mounted infantry brigade of the Australian Imperial Force (AIF), which served in the Middle Eastern theatre of World War I. The brigade was initially formed as a part-time militia formation in the early 1900s in New South Wales and then later in Queensland. In 1914, the brigade was re-constituted as part of the AIF and was sent to Egypt. Forming part of the New Zealand and Australian Division, during the Gallipoli Campaign it served in a dismounted role between May and December 1915. After being withdrawn to Egypt it served in the Anzac Mounted Division from March 1916 as part of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force, taking part in the Sinai and Palestine Campaign until the end of the war. It was disbanded in 1919. After the war, the AIF light horse regiments were demobilised and disbanded; however, the brigade briefly existed as a part-time militia formation in Queensland until 1921 when its regiments were reorganised into cavalry brigades.
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