MR NEVILLE CLARK MC, FORMER HEADMASTER, MENTONE GRAMMAR SCHOOL, MELBOURNE
Topic: ANZAC DAY REFLECTION: Sir Harry Chauvel and the Australian Light Horse in Palestine’ Hotel Soho, Davey Street, Hobart (UPSTAIRS DINING ROOM) Thursday 30 October, 2020
6.00 pm Two-course Dinner and Lecture, $35 per person (drinks not included), booking essential
Ending 400 years of Ottoman rule and paving the way for the creation thirty years later of the modern state of Israel, General Allenby’s Palestine campaign of 1917-1918 relied most heavily on its main striking force, the five Brigades of the Australian Light Horse, whose rugged riders and indomitable Walers proved to be the most effective and longest-serving of all the Allied forces in the Middle East – while throughout those storied lands of the Bible the Chaplains in particular had a field day!