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| B Squadron In 1914, on the outbreak of the First World War, the 10th Light Horse Regiment was raised in Western Australia, to serve as part of the Australian Imperial Force. The regiment saw action as dismounted troops at Battle of Gallipoli in 1915, but suffered such terrible losses that it had to be evacuated. The regiment's action at the Nek was immortalised in the final scenes of the 1981 Peter Weir film Gallipoli. BEAN 10th Regiment (11?. Aust.), 205-6. 222, 224, 230, 60gn, 624; at Quinn?s. 205, 225-9; attacks at The Nek, 7 Aug., 607-8, 611, 616-21, casualtics, 618, 623, Hill 60, 756-61, casualties, 761n. |
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