NAVAL BASE TRAINING FACILITY 1939 ONWARDS.
Please read further about 10th Light Horse Militia Regiment formed in 1939 – while 2nd AIF was being formed.
‘Militia units – such as 28th Battalion and 10th Light Horse Regiment – who were already organised and ready to train, were given precedence at their regular camps while the Second Australian Imperial Force (2nd AIF) was raised.’
‘All of these militia units using Naval Base as their exercise site meant that, when war was declared in September 1939, it was considered a regular militia site and was immediately held aside as army training grounds.’
10TH LIGHT HORSE, THE HORSES AND MEN
They came from the farm and the station,
They rode in from the far outback –
From the Gulf and Wyndham they hurried
Short cutting the drover’s track.
Then they sauntered ungainly and awkward,
These lantern-jawed Aussies and lean
To enlist in the Empire’s legions
Large-hearted dinkum and green.
And they fought as their fathers before them:
‘All in’ as a matter of course –
These Aussies of whipcord and sinew –
The men of the Tenth Light Horse.
