The Australian and New Zealand Mounted Division was a mounted infantry division of the British Empire during the First World War. The division was raised in March 1916 and was assigned to the I ANZAC Corps. On establishment, it consisted of four brigades comprising three Australian Light Horse and one New Zealand mounted rifles, supported by British horse artillery. In 1917, one of the Australian brigades was replaced by a British yeomanry brigade. After April 1917, the standard order of battle was reduced to two Australian brigades and one New Zealand brigade, although the Imperial Camel Corps Brigade and other British mounted brigades were temporarily attached several times during operations. The division had two wartime commanders; the first was the Australian Major-General Harry Chauvel, who had commanded the 1st Light Horse Brigade at Gallipoli. When Chauvel was promoted to command the Desert Column – of which the division was part – he was replaced by the New Zealander Major-General Edward Chaytor from the New Zealand Mounted Rifles Brigade, who remained in command for the rest of the war. Post-war, Brigadier-General Granville Ryrie commanded the division from December 1918 until it was disbanded in June 1919. In December 1915, the brigades that would form the ANZAC Mounted Division were evacuated from the Gallipoli Campaign and became part of the British Empire's Egyptian Expeditionary Force. In March 1916, after raising the division served, as the mounted formation, in the I ANZAC Corps. Then subsequently served under the command of Eastern Force for most of 1916. The division served in the Desert Column from the end of 1916 until mid-1917, when the column was expanded and renamed the Desert Mounted Corps. The division fought and won almost all the major battles across the Sinai Peninsula during 1916, and the following year it fought from Gaza to Jerusalem in southern Palestine. In 1918, it took part in the Jordan Valley operations, the raid on Amman, the raid on Es Salt and the final advance to Amman and Ziza, part of the Battle of Megiddo. During which the division formed the main part of Chaytor's Force – which captured 10,300 men from the Turkish Fourth Army. (en)
Die Australian and New Zealand Mounted Division (ANZAC Mounted Division) war eine Division , die während des Ersten Weltkrieges 1916 in Ägypten aufgestellt wurde und bis 1918 an der Palästinafront eingesetzt war.Der Titel ANZAC (Australian and New Zealand Army Corps) deutete auf die kombinierte Zusammensetzung von australischen und neuseeländischen Truppenteilen hin. Wahrscheinlich diente diese Bezeichnung auch als erste offizielle Verwendung eines derartigen Großverbandes, bevor die Aufstellung der anderen ANZAC-Divisionen und Korps anlief. (de)
L'ANZAC Mounted Division, officiellement connue sous le nom d'Australian and New Zealand Mounted Division, était une division de cavalerie légère (infanterie montée) du Corps d'armée australien et néo-zélandais formée en mars 1916 en Égypte durant la Première Guerre mondiale à la suite de la bataille des Dardanelles, quand les régiments australiens et néo-zélandais revinrent des combats où ils avaient servi à pied, en tant qu'infanterie. Elle servit ensuite sur le front du Moyen-Orient, notamment lors de la campagne du Sinaï et de la Palestine et en Syrie. Elle fut commandée par le Major-général Sir Harry Chauvel de mars 1916 à 1917, qui fut remplacé par le Major-général Chaytor jusqu'à la fin de la guerre. (fr)
Die Australian and New Zealand Mounted Division (ANZAC Mounted Division) war eine Division , die während des Ersten Weltkrieges 1916 in Ägypten aufgestellt wurde und bis 1918 an der Palästinafront eingesetzt war.Der Titel ANZAC (Australian and New Zealand Army Corps) deutete auf die kombinierte Zusammensetzung von australischen und neuseeländischen Truppenteilen hin. Wahrscheinlich diente diese Bezeichnung auch als erste offizielle Verwendung eines derartigen Großverbandes, bevor die Aufstellung der anderen ANZAC-Divisionen und Korps anlief. (de)
The Australian and New Zealand Mounted Division was a mounted infantry division of the British Empire during the First World War. The division was raised in March 1916 and was assigned to the I ANZAC Corps. On establishment, it consisted of four brigades comprising three Australian Light Horse and one New Zealand mounted rifles, supported by British horse artillery. In 1917, one of the Australian brigades was replaced by a British yeomanry brigade. After April 1917, the standard order of battle was reduced to two Australian brigades and one New Zealand brigade, although the Imperial Camel Corps Brigade and other British mounted brigades were temporarily attached several times during operations. (en)
L'ANZAC Mounted Division, officiellement connue sous le nom d'Australian and New Zealand Mounted Division, était une division de cavalerie légère (infanterie montée) du Corps d'armée australien et néo-zélandais formée en mars 1916 en Égypte durant la Première Guerre mondiale à la suite de la bataille des Dardanelles, quand les régiments australiens et néo-zélandais revinrent des combats où ils avaient servi à pied, en tant qu'infanterie. Elle servit ensuite sur le front du Moyen-Orient, notamment lors de la campagne du Sinaï et de la Palestine et en Syrie. (fr)