Remembrance Day in the western Riverina town of Hay will include five Light Horse riders and a donkey in the march on Saturday to commemorate 100 years since the Charge of Beersheba.
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Two of these Light Horse riders rode in the ceremony at Beersheba in Israel last Tuesday in memory of the horses and their riders who saw action during the last great cavalry charge in history.
There are many families in the western Riverina who have ancestors who served with the Light Horse, and the stations surrounding Hay were a source of re-mounts for the Light Horse brigades.
The bronze statue is the culmination of the tireless effort by local resident, Jim Cooper, to have the horses and men from the Hay district remembered.
Kapooka Military Band will lead the march from the Cenotaph to the site of the new Hay Light Horse War Memorial on the corner of Moppett and Pine streets, which will be unveiled by former Hay resident, Air Vice-Marshall Warren McDonald.
Hall of Service
The Anzac Memorial in Hyde Park, Sydney, is gathering soil samples from every town where enlistees for the First World War called home, to be displayed in a "Hall of Service".
Bega RSL sub-branch president, Gary Berman, said samples from across the Bega Valley Shire were being collected. Muster for Bega's service is at 10.45am at the War Memorial Gates on Carp Street.
