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 Original World War 1 items - water bottle, slouch hat and round mess kit containing a dixie. A dixie is a mess tin for holding stew or other doled out food |
 A gas mask for a horse |
 A World War 1 saddle |
 World War 1 saddle wallets. These saddle wallets and the saddle would have been used within Australia - for quarantine reasons those used overseas were not brought back. |
 The lighthorseman's jacket, slouch hat, ammunition pouches (around the waist), six leather pockets for two 15-round clips for the Hotchkiss machine gun (across chest). |
 The colours of the 22nd Light Horse. (See enlargement.) |
See also skill-at-arms photographs
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● Pictorial Saddlery and Equipment (lighthorse.org.au) ● Pictorial Dress - WW1 (lighthorse.org.au) ● Australian Army saddle, pattern of 1912 (grantsmilitaria.com) ● Light Horse equipment, horse furniture, etc. (diggerhistory.info) http://www.diggerhistory.info/pages-equip/lt_horse.htm
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