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General Sir Henry George Chauvel, was a senior officer of the Australian Imperial Force who fought at Gallipoli and during the Sinai and Palestine Campaign in the Middle Eastern theatre of the First World War. He was the first Australian to attain the rank of lieutenant general and later general, and the first to lead a corps. As commander of the Desert Mounted Corps, he was responsible for ...
A plaque commemorates Sir Harry Chauvel, commander of the Desert Mounted Corps during World War One and lay canon of the cathedral. General Sir Henry George Chauvel, GCMG,KCB (16 April 1865 – 4 March 1945), more usually known as Sir Harry Chauvel, was a senior officer of the Australian Imperial Force who fought at Gallipoli and during the Sinai and palestine Campaign in the Middle Eastern ...
Chauvel in the Boer War Miles Farmer OAM provides an insight into the role Sir Harry played in the Boer War. Chauvel's Beersheba Based on two talks on 27th October 2017 to members of the Light Horse Memorial Park Inc (Seymour) & the
And he did. That was his thing – ‘I’m a Light Horseman.’”. He served in three wars over half a century, led the army during peacetime, and was the first Australian to attain the rank of general, but Sir Harry Chauvel never forgot that he was a Light Horseman. When he retired from the army in 1930, he had one simple request: to ride ...
Harry Chauvel was born on April 16, 1865 in Tabulam, New South Wales and educated at Sydney Grammar and Toowoomba Grammar schools. His father had served in the British army and began his own unit, the Upper Clarence Light Horse, which Harry joined. He managed his father’s cattle properties and became an excellent horseman.
General Sir Harry Chauvel GCMG, KCB (1865-1945) was both the first Australian to become a Lieutenant-General and lead a corps, and the first Australian to attain the rank of General. During the Boer War he commanded a company of the Queensland Mounted Infantry and afterwards played a prominent role in the establishment of a new Australian army.
Harry Chauvel’s grandfather (Charles George Temple Chauvel) purchased Tabulam Station (East Tabulam) from Judge Windeyer in 1848. The grandfather and his wife and younger children lived originally in a homestead close to Tabulam Rivulet. (Harry’s grandfather was a former officer in the British Army in India, and Harry’s own father Charlie ...
