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Portrait of General Sir Henry (Harry) George Chauvel GCMG KCB March 1923 Australian War Memorial (J00503) As we near the end of the Centenary of the First World War it has been commented that if all we do during this period is view a few sepia photos and open a few memorials we have not only missed the point, but more importantly, we have lost some significant opportunities.
General Sir Henry George (Harry) Chauvel GCMG, KCB, was one of Australia’s most distinguished and decorated army generals. He was the first Australian to rise to the rank of Lieutenant General and later General and the first one to command an entire Corps. By the end of World War 1, he led five brigades of Light Horse and cavalry to a ...
2 de may. de 2007 · The son of a New South Wales grazier, Harry Chauvel was a born cavalry officer. He was 53, the first Australian to command a corps, and Damascus was the pinnacle of his career as a field soldier. Chauvel found his local liaison officer, a 30-year-old Oxford archaeologist named TE Lawrence, outside Government House, "attired as the sherif of Mecca" and surrounded by a crowd of exuberant Arabs.
Biography. "Sir Henry George (Harry) Chauvel (1865-1945), soldier, was born on 16 April 1865 at Tabulam, New South Wales, second son of Charles Henry Edward Chauvel, grazier and cattle-breeder, and his wife Fanny Ada Mary, née James. Chauvel was educated at Sydney Grammar School but had a final year at Toowoomba Grammar before taking his place ...
General Sir Henry George Chauvel, GCMG KCB (16 April 1865 – 4 March 1945), known also 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 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 ...
active in roles relating to and supporting the military until his death. Another well-known Chauvel (a nephew of Harry Chauvel) was the pioneering Australian filmmaker Charles Chauvel, whose films include Forty Thousand Horsemen (1941) and Jedda (1955). The Chauvel Cinema in Paddington is named after him.
[Biographical cuttings on Major-General Henry (Harry) Chauvel, Australia's great cavalry leader of the last war, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] Chauvel of the Light Horse : a biography of General Sir Harry Chauvel, G.C.M.G., K.C.B. / Alec Hill
