🏆 Fitting to have three-time NSW Breeders Challenge champion Captains Knock win the Battle Of Beersheba at Club Menangle tonight. David Wonson caught up with part-owner Josh Stapleton of the Triple Play Syndicate following the scintillating success where Captains Knock clocked 1:52.3 for the 2300m feature 👇 | Harness Racing NSW

March to the battle in a column of companies to the beat to the fife and drum at the 160th Chickamauga. | 1st Minnesota Sharpshooters - Civil War Reenactment Group

A Queensland man has reflected on his dad's role in the Battle of Beersheba. It was an Australian cavalry charge 100 years ago and an astonishing World War one victory. The descendants of those brave men are in Israel for a special service tonight. www.7News.com.au #7News | 7NEWS Cairns

107 years ago today, the last great cavalry charge took place in the battle of Beersheba on 31 October 1917, part of the wider British offensive collectively known as the third Battle of Gaza. Beersheba was a heavily fortified town 43 kilometres from the Turkish bastion of Gaza. It anchored the right end of a defensive line that stretched from Gaza on the Mediterranean coast. The first two frontal attacks on Gaza, in March and April 1917, failed. The British Army re-organised before trying again

Australia is preparing to commemorate its first great World War I victory, the battle of Beersheba. http://bit.ly/2yV5AwY | SBS News

BATTLE OF BEERSHEBA COMMEMORATIONS BEGIN IN TABULAM This year marks the centenary of the WWI Battle of Beersheba, led by General Sir Harry Chauvel. The anniversary is not until October, but the community of #Tabulam began its commemorations on the weekend. Australian Lighthorse Association director Barry Rodgers paid tribute to Chauvel at the ceremony. "Harry Chauvel, of course, is very important to the Lighthorse, he was our commander in that famous charge of Beersheba and Tabulam is where he w

"They spurred their horses through that fire, those mad Australians." PM Malcolm Turnbull praised Anzac soldiers at the re-enactment of the Battle of Beersheba centennial in Israel. http://bit.ly/2yjvqLZ | SBS News