10th. Light Horse Regiment
(Percute et percute velocitor)
(original badge)
Situated on the R/H side of Fraser Avenue this Memorial dedicated on April 13th.,1921,honours those who fell in WW1. The front of the die stone bears the dedication plaque whilst the other three sides bear plaques recording the names of those who died,Two Hundred & Ninetyone are shown. The Regiment as such was first raised at the start of WW1( all volunteers,they had to supply their own horses),it's first engagement being at Gallipoli where it fought as infantry,thereafter,as mounted infantry it fought throughout the Middle East culminating in the Regiment accepting the surrender of Damascus in 1918, it was disbanded in 1919. Originally the Memorial was flanked by a German Field Gun captured by the Regiment at Jenin, in the 1970s being in need of repair it was removed to Irwin Barracks where,presumably,it still is