24/04/2026
(pictured - John Stewart Smith WX6841 10 Light Horse Militia 17 Dec 1936)
10TH LIGHT HORSE, THE HORSES AND MEN ...
They came from the farm and the station,
They rode in from the far outback –
From the Gulf and Wyndham they hurried
Short cutting the drover’s track.
Then they sauntered ungainly and awkward,
These lantern-jawed Aussies and lean
To enlist in the Empire’s legions
Large-hearted dinkum and green.
And they fought as their fathers before them:
‘All in’ as a matter of course –
These Aussies of whipcord and sinew –
The men of the Tenth Light Horse.
.. Lest we forget