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1 Harry Bell was one of them.
How young was too young? Men volunteering for the army were supposed to be 18 but many enlisted much younger. Harry Bell was one of them.

2 Call from the Dardanelles – Australian War Memorial https://www. awm
Call from the Dardanelles – Australian War Memorial Recruitment poster created by H M Burton, for The Defence Department of the Commonwealth

3 Best Mates – painting by Light Horse Artist Jennifer Marshall
Best Mates – Jennifer Marshall

4 Waler with his equipment
Taffy & Cpl Edwards – Light Horse WW1

5 New Zealand engineers repair well at Khalassa near Beersheba
Engineers repairing a well at Khalassa near Beersheba

6 Abraham’s well at Beersheba
Abraham’s well at Beersheba (before renovations) – J Curry

7 Charge of the Light Horse at Beersheba
Disputed picture of the charge at Beersheba (or re-enactment) – Australian War memorial It was probably taken when two regiments of the 4th Brigade, Australian Light Horse, re-enacted the charge for the official photographer Frank Hurley, at Belah on 7 February 1918.

8 Watering horses at Beersheba
Watering the horses Beersheba

9 Horse drawn Ambulance wagon

10 Mass grave for 4th LH casualties
Graves at Romani

11 Beersheba after the charge
Ambulances outside the Beersheba mosque

12 Beersheba War cemetery today
The Commonwealth War Graves cemetery at Beersheba where Harry Bell is buried – J Curry


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