4th Light Horse Brigade

4th Light Horse Brigade

Infobox Military Unit
unit_name=4th Light Horse Brigade
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dates= 1915 - 1918
country=Australia
allegiance=Australian Crown
branch=Australian Army
type= Mounted Infantry
role=
size= Brigade
command_structure= Imperial Mounted Division
Australian Mounted Division
equipment= Horse
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battles=Sinai and Palestine Campaign
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battle_honours=The 4th Light Horse Brigade was a mounted infantry brigade of the First Australian Imperial Force they served in the Middle Eastern theatre of World War I.The brigade was formed in March 1915 and shipped to Egypt without their horses and was broken up in Egypt in August 1915.The brigade was reformed in February 1917 and attached to the Imperial Mounted Division and in June 1917 transfered to the Australian Mounted Division, where it served in the Sinai and Palestine Campaign until the end of the war. [cite web|title=diggerhistory|url=http://www.diggerhistory.info/pages-a-l-horse/4th_lh_bde.htm] [cite web|title=unsw.adfa.edu.au|url=http://www.unsw.adfa.edu.au/~rmallett/Light_Horse.html]

Commanders

*Brigadier General J. B. Meredith 13 February 1917 to 13 September 1917
*Brigadier General W. Grant 13 September 1917 to past November 1918 [cite web|title=diggerhistory|url=http://www.diggerhistory.info/pages-a-l-horse/4th_lh_bde.htm]

Formation

*4th Light Horse Regiment
*11th Light Horse Regiment
*12th Light Horse Regiments
*4th Machine Gun Squadron
*4th Signal Troop [cite web|title=diggerhistory|url=http://www.diggerhistory.info/pages-a-l-horse/4th_lh_bde.htm] [cite web|title=unsw.adfa.edu.au|url=http://www.unsw.adfa.edu.au/~rmallett/Light_Horse.html]

Battles

*First Battle of Gaza
*Second Battle of Gaza
*Third Battle of Gaza
*Battle of Beersheba
*Battle of Es Salt
*Battle of Megiddo (1918) [cite web|title=diggerhistory|url=http://www.diggerhistory.info/pages-a-l-horse/4th_lh_bde.htm] [cite web|title=unsw.adfa.edu.au|url=http://www.unsw.adfa.edu.au/~rmallett/Light_Horse.html]

References

ee Also

*1st Light Horse Brigade
*2nd Light Horse Brigade
*3rd Light Horse Brigade
*5th Light Horse Brigade


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