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The Charge of Beersheba 1917 |
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The greatest cavalry charge in history, the 10th Australian lighthorsemen taking the wells of Beersheba (1917), riding those great Waler horses crushing the Turkish armies and liberating Palestine from hundreds of years of Muslim rule.
British cavalry officers observing the wild charge from the sidelines, leapt to their feet and broke into wild cheers and applause, squadron after squadron of light horsemen thundered over the trenches and into town, one squadron leader Lawson would be recommended for the highest decoration – The Victoria Cross, even the horses joined the fight. One mighty Waler rearing up and lashing out at the terrified Turks with it’s hooves.
By the time the last rays of sun began to slip from the desert sky, Beersheba, the key to the holy land, was firmly in Australian hands and thousands of men and horses from the Anzac Desert corps were watering at the “Well of Oath” for the first time in four hundred years the road to Jerusalem was open.
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