Display: Light Horse equipment
This display includes an original World War 1 water bottle and a round mess kit containing a dixie. A dixie is a mess tin for holding stew or other doled out food. A slouch hat (based on the current style) can be seen on the right. |
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.) |
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See also
skill-at-arms photographs
Other websites |
● Pictorial Saddlery and Equipment (lighthorse.org.au) ● Pictorial Dress - WW1 (lighthorse.org.au) ● Light Horse equipment, horse furniture, etc. (diggerhistory.info) The url of this page is: http://www.diggerhistory.info/pages-equip/lt_horse.htm If the page is unavailable, try accessing this url as explained on our Where is Digger History? page.
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