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They were also supported by the Women's Auxiliary Service Burma. BCOF headquarters was at Kure. The position of commanding officer was always filled by Australians: William Bridgeford from November until the end of the occupation. Otherwise, go to "My Account" to access the download link.

This product was added to our catalog on Friday 17 June, Site Home blog Contact Us. Digital Download E-Book - 70 pages Comments: Available now as a digital download. In the streets, bazaars and whorehouses of Egypt they created for themselves a reputation as being boisterous and rowdy as well as openly indifferent at times to all forms of rank and authority.

A leaning towards improvisional larceny was certainly not confined to the non-commissioned ranks.

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Shortly after arrival in Egypt in the Australian Commander Harry Chauval found that many of his horses had lost condition during the sea voyage from Australia and he set about culling large numbers of these animals. As providence would have it, a few nights later a newly-arrived shipment of horses from Australia stampeded and scattered across the desert outside Cairo. In the latter-day 10th Light Horse Regiment there was no lack of such boisterous behaviour. In the early days of the newly formed Regiment, static camps were held in the army barracks at both Karrakatta and Northam.

Often these locations were the scenes of rowdy and sometimes reckless behaviour, and it is not unfair to say that Ted White made his own contributions to such events. He was present when some of the almost legendary events occurred, outside the official military proceedings of the Regiment. From my earliest days in the Regiment I had heard stories of a Staghound main armament being discharged outside a mess window in one of these static camps.

The story circulated around the campfires and messes for year, with embellishments and variations. But as Ted White relates, the incident did occurr. On leaving for their own lines at the end of the evening, they found their Landrovers had been filled to the roof with unbaled hay, with a note indicating that this was to feed their horses.

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Of course it blew the bloody window straight out, there was glass everywhere. Edmondson cajoled the visiting Brigadier into taking part in an experiment to demonstrate how smaller men could lift a larger, more powerful man, which the Brigadier was.

Anyway he finished up taking it pretty well except that he really made a mess of my uniform. I had to take my blues home to my wife, my newly married wife and get her to repair them for the formal dining-in night back in Perth.

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Other events were not as boisterous or exhibited such disregard for the rank structures of the army. He was never hesitant to demonstrate the pride he had in the abilities of the men with whom he served. He relates with a great deal of satisfaction his unit organising a semi-formal lunch, with four courses, appropriate wines, white tablecloths and all, for a visiting CMF General, while the Regiment was camped in the isolated outer reaches of the Lancelin training area.

The General had previously been warned that the Regiment was on hard rations and that meals would be somewhat rough.

Following the withdrawal of other forces from the end of , BCOF was largely an Australian commitment. Early in , the unit was moved to Tokyo, where it was to share in the guard duties for the Imperial Palace. Such characteristics, together with the scope of his service, have earned him a memorable place in the history of the 10th Light Horse Regiment. Australian Bomb Disposal Platoon was responsible for destroying live armaments and many high explosives. Ted White considered it important that Armoured Corps ideals and expectations were reflected as much as possible in the upper echelons of the Regimental command and so, now a Major, he accepted a posting as second-in-command of the Regiment. These are early pattern vehicles with the tool stowage on the left side rather than on the rear toolboxes.

What the General was not aware of was that, through a number of contacts within the Regiment, the manageress and kitchen staff of the Lancelin Inn, a hotel located on the southern edge of the training area, were in the mess kitchen, using a Wiles cooker to convert available rations into special dishes. At another time I recall Lt-Colonel White monitoring the progress of a mobile exercise with an extension lead and speaker from the radio in his vehicle, with the motor running outside a mess tent in the middle of nowhere, while he gave a running commentary to visiting officials inside the tent.

An attack that often never came. As a Commanding Officer, Ted White was never reckless — but the quote suits him well. He exhibited dare-devilry and cunning in his conduct as a soldier and as a Commanding Officer of his Regiment, these perhaps tinged with more than just a touch of the Australian larrikin.

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Such characteristics, together with the scope of his service, have earned him a memorable place in the history of the 10th Light Horse Regiment. Skip to content Colonel E.

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