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APPENDIX "A"
Brigade Staff and Commanding Officers of Units during period under review.
| Brigade Commander | Brig.-General L.C. Wilson, C.M.G., D.S.O. |
| A.D.C. to G.O.C. | Lieut. H.J. Cattle, D.C.M. |
| Lieut. H.R. Hammond | |
| Brigade Major | Major W.M. Anderson, D.S.O. |
| Major W.J. Urquhart. | |
| Capt. W.M. Lyall, M.C. | |
| Staff Captain | Capt. M.W. Lyall, M.C. |
| Lieut. A.S. Barker | |
| Vet. Officer | Major S.A. Mountjoy |
| 8th L.H. Regiment | Lieut.-Col. L.C. Maygar, V.C., D.S.O. |
| Lieut.-Col. A.M. McLaurin. | |
| Major H.J. Shannon, D.S.O. | |
| Lieut.-Col. T.J. Daly, D.S.O. | |
| 9th L.H. Regiment | Lieut.-Col. W.H. Scott, C.M.G., D.S.O. |
| 10th L.H. Regiment | Lieut.-Col. T.J. Todd, C.M.G., D.S.O. |
| Lieut.-Col. A.C.N. Olden, D.S.O. | |
| 3rd M.G.S. | Major C.L. Nicholas. |
| Capt. G.H. Bryant. | |
| 3rd Sig. Troop | Lieut. W.J. Latham. |
| Lieut. W.D. Glanfield. | |
| 3rd L.H. Field Amb. | Lieut. Col. G.E.M. Stuart. |
| 8th Mob. Vet. Sect. | Major H. Worthington. |
| Capt. R.N. Wardle. | |
| 3rd Field Troop (Engineers) | Lieut. P.H. Harper |
| Notts Battery | Major Harrison, M.C. |
| R.H.A. | Major Fraser McKenzie, D.S.O. |
| Capt. Fosbrooke Hobbs, M.C. |
APPENDIX "B"
THE SWORD
The cavalry sword - long thrusting pattern, (about 42 inches in length), was issued to all ranks of the Australian Mounted Division in August, 1918, prior to the final general offensive. The Division had received, while at Belah, in the early part of the year, 1918, a fair amount of training in the use of the bayonet as a sword for mounted shock action. The bayonet was not, however, satisfactory. The grip was not good, the weapon had a very short reach, it was too blunt for melee fighting, and it was a very skilful horseman who could while riding at the gallop put the point of it through a dummy on the ground. The training, however, that the men received in its use at Belah showed itself when swords were issued at Ludd, with the result that the Cavalry Instructors passed most of the men as sufficiently efficient after a few lessons. The issue of the weapon, I consider, was most than justified. Was it not Napoleon who said that the moral force was to the physical, as 3 is to 1. I consider the sword has a great moral effect both on the man carrying it and on the enemy. One of the chief values of the sword is the spirit of progress that it inculcates in the carrier. He does not allow himself to be bluffed by slight opposition. He rides on feeling that he has a weapon in his hand, and in 19 times out of 20, finds the opposition only a bluff. With mounted rifleman, on the other hand, his only course is to make wide flanking movements to induce the opposition to retire, or to dismount and try to shift it by fire action. This all means time, or uncertainty, which is exactly what the enemy wants.