5th Light Horse Brigade

5th Light Horse Brigade

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dates= 1918
country=Australia
allegiance=Australian Crown
branch=Australian Army
type= Mounted Infantry
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size= Brigade
command_structure= Australian Mounted Division
equipment= Horse
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battles=Sinai and Palestine Campaign
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The 5th Light Horse Brigade was a mounted infantry brigade of the First Australian Imperial Force, formed in Palestine in July 1918 they served in the Middle Eastern theatre of World War I in the Sinai and Palestine Campaign, as part of the Australian Mounted Division. [cite web|title=diggerhistory|url=http://www.diggerhistory.info/pages-a-l-horse/5th_lh_bde.htm] [cite web|title=unsw.adfa.edu.au|url=http://www.unsw.adfa.edu.au/~rmallett/Light_Horse.html]

Commander

*Brigadier General G. M. MacArthur Onslow

Formation

*14th Light Horse Regiment
*15th Light Horse Regiment
*French 1er Regiment Mixte de Cavalerie du Lavant
*New Zealand 2nd Machine Gun Squadron
*5th Signal Troop [cite web|title=diggerhistory|url=http://www.diggerhistory.info/pages-a-l-horse/5th_lh_bde.htm] [cite web|title=unsw.adfa.edu.au|url=http://www.unsw.adfa.edu.au/~rmallett/Light_Horse.html]

Battles

Battle of Megiddo (1918)

References

ee Also

*1st Light Horse Brigade
*2nd Light Horse Brigade
*3rd Light Horse Brigade
*4th Light Horse Brigade


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