Yesterday Today | Light Horses

By Alan McRae
April 16 2018 - 5:00am
TENDER CARE: Early each morning, the light horsemen fed, watered and groomed their horses.
TENDER CARE: Early each morning, the light horsemen fed, watered and groomed their horses.

OUR photo this week is of troopers of the Australian Light Horse watering their mounts in the River Jordan in Palestine towards the end of the Great War, 1914-1918.

They were involved in fighting against the Ottoman forces. The image was taken by Chaplain Captain Maitland Woods, who took hundreds of images while serving in the Middle East. Most of the Australians were part of the ANZAC Mounted Division.

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