CONTENTS

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Preface (Lieut.-Gen. Sir H. G. Chauvel)[xiii].
Fighting for Palestine (H. S. Gullett)[1]
Anthem Bells (“Gerardy”)[60]
Palestine Poppies (Charles Barrett)[61]
Farming in Arcady (H. S. G.)[64]
Standing To (Brentomman)[69]
A Waler’s Story (E. L. D. Husband)[71]
The Horses Stay Behind (“Trooper Bluegum”)[78]
One Too Many (“Anon”)[79]
The Light That Failed (“Sarg”)[83]
A Night March (“Aram”)[87]
A Gloomy Outlook (“Aram”)[90]
Reconciliation (“Gerardy”)[91]
Mail Day (“Wil Cox”)[92]
A Day Over The Lines (H. Bowden Fletcher)[94]
Mounts and Remounts (“Acrabah”)[99]
Concerning Medical Blokes (“Larrie”)[102]
The Signal Service (“Ack-Vic-Ack”)[109]
Battle Song (“Gerardy”)[114]
The Little Bint of Wady Hanein (“Camp Follower”)[115]
Algy, Misfit (“Billzac”)[121]
Palestine (“Trooper Bluegum”)[123]
The Camel Brigade (“Trooper Bluegum”)[125]
Resting (“Tralas”)[132]
The Mukhtar’s Goats (“2469”)[137]
The Batman (W. M. W.)[139]
Damascus (H. W. D.)[140]
Malaria (“Koolawarra”)[144]
Fall Out The 1914 Men (“Bataggi”)[145]
Old Horse o’ Mine (T. V. B.)[149]
Concerning Machine Guns (“Sarg”)[150]
Delivered! (“Gerardy”)[153]

ILLUSTRATIONS

COLOUR PLATES
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General Sir Edmund H. H. Allenby, G.C.B., G.C.M.G.[iii].
Jerusalem, from below the Mount of Olives[4]
Romani. Mount Royston in the distance[14]
Magdhaba, showing the Wady Bed about one mile from Turkish buildings[26]
The Road to Jericho[38]
The Dead Sea (Sunrise)[42]
Australians on the Road to Jerusalem[30]
An Australian Flying Squadron in Palestine[50]
Jaffa[54]
Australians prior to the fight for Nalin[54]
Anzac Ridge, Gaza[56]
National Types[70]
Evening amongst the Judean Hills[78]
A Camp in the Desert[78]
Got Him Cold[94]
The End of the Scrap[96]
Convalescent[106]
A Signal Office in the Field[110]
Some Souvenir[124]
Buying Oranges, Jaffa[138]
PHOTOGRAPHS, Etc.
Lieut.-General Sir H. G. Chauvel, K.C.B., K.C.M.G.[xv].
Jaffa[4]
Map of Ottoman Empire[6]–7
A Brief Halt Richly Earned[9]
Jerusalem from the Air[9]
Damascus from the Air[10]
3rd L.H. Camp at Belah[10]
In a Village Street[14]
Map of Northern Sinai[18]–19
Turks marching out of Jerusalem (1914)[23]
Gaza[23]
The Mount of Temptation[24]
All the World Over[24]
Turkish Prisoners at Beersheba[29]
Street Market, Jerusalem[29]
Jericho, showing garden oasis[29]
Light Horse crossing Jordan[29]
In the Jordan Valley[30]
Spring Water, Clear and Cold[30]
Map of Palestine[34]–35
Ismailia[38]
In the Jordan Valley[41]
Shopping in Jericho[41]
“Baksheesh”[42]
A Meal outside the Bivvies[42]
Scotties on a Route March[42]
Major-Gen. Chaytor receives Arab Chiefs[46]
Jerusalem[46]
Map of Syria[48]–49
Orange Seller, Jaffa[53]
In the Shade[53]
The Village Well[54]
Native Plough and Team[54]
Harvest Time[65]
Ploughing as of Old[65]
Native Stock[65]
The Franciscan Monastery[66]
Lake of Tiberias[66]
Outposts[70]
Jordan Valley Dust[70]
5th L.H. Brigade entering Nablus[73]
Watering Horses, Es Salt[73]
Horses Thirsty[74]
Light Horsemen in Judean Hills[74]
Wady Nimrin[81]
Arab Agents[81]
German Prisoners in Jericho[81]
Meal Time[82]
“She’s Boiling”[82]
Defences in the Ghoraniyeh Bridgehead[85]
The Brickmaker[85]
A Typical Arab Village[86]
4th L.H. Brigade Watering Horses[86]
Roman Fort, Jericho[88]
Horses under cover[89]
A.L. Horse in Camp[89]
2nd L.H. marching through Khan Yunis[89]
Turkish Prisoners at Es Salt[97]
Jericho[97]
Nazareth from the Air[98]
“A Light Horse Type”[101]
Mounting First Guard in Jericho[107]
Halt and Rest[107]
Church and Tomb of the Virgin[108]
Jaffa Gate, Jerusalem[108]
Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem[108]
Church of the Nativity, Bethlehem[108]
Brig.-General Ryrie inspects the “Bully”[119]
Brig.-General Cox on River Jordan[119]
A Wallad of Palestine[120]
“Tower of the Forty”[123]
Mosque of Omar[124]
The Midday Halt[126]
Brig.-General C. L. Smith, V.C., M.C.[127]
Our Water Supply[127]
Watering Time, Camel Brigade[129]
“Prepare to Mount”[129]
Camels bearing Supplies on the Philistine Plain[131]
Bedouins Captured at Hassaniya[133]
Street Market, Jerusalem[133]
Bedouin Village[134]
Turkish Prisoners, Nablus[134]
Mrs. Chisholm’s Canteen at Kantara[146]
Bethlehem[147]
Troopers entering Jericho[148]
Damascus[148]
Finish[154]

Preface

“Australia in Palestine” should prove of great interest to the people of Australia, and especially to those whose lives have been spent outside the great cities, for it includes a record of the achievements of their “very own”—the horsemen of Australia, and of the Flying Corps and the Anzac Section of the Imperial Camel Corps, which were recruited from them, and co-operated with them in the greatest war yet known to history.

The Australian Light Horseman—and under this name I include the Field and Signal Engineers and Medical Services connected with him, who come from the same stock—is of a type peculiarly his own and has no counterpart that I know of except in his New Zealand brother. His fearlessness, initiative and endurance, and his adaptability to almost any task, are due to the adventurous life he leads in his own country, where he has been accustomed to long hours in the saddle, day and night, and to facing danger of all sorts from his earliest youth. Perhaps these qualities are inherited from his pioneer parents. His invariable good humour under the most adverse conditions comes from the good-fellowship and camaraderie which exists in the free and open life of the Australian Bush. His chivalry comes from the same source, and it is one of his strongest points. In other words, the life he has been accustomed to lead has fitted him to become, with training and discipline, second to no cavalry soldier in the world.