Military History

Embarked Fremantle per RMS ‘Karmala’ with 10th Light Horse 12.2.1917.
Roll Rank Private.
Roll Unit 80 depot 25/10th Light Horse Regiment.
Bright disembarked with the 10th Light Horse 25th Reinforcement at Suez 11.3.17. They marched into the Details Camp at Moascar 12.3.1917and were taken on strength 26.3.1917. Bright was transferred to 10th Light Horse Regiment as Trooper. He was taken on strength was part of the Desert Column  24.4.17 and advanced into Palestine.  Bright is likley to have fought a in the attacks to break the  Gaza-Beersheba Line in October 1917  and the Es Salt Raid in May 1918. Bright developed malaria in 17.6.1918 and was hospitalized for 6 weeks in Palestine. He received a full course of treatment and returned to duty. Bright experienced a further malarial attack 4.11.1918 and was hospitalized for 3 months. Bright was later admitted to hospital with an abscess on his thigh 2.1.1919. He returned to Australia when demobilized.
Embarked Kantara per HT ‘Oxfordshire’ for Australia 10.7.1919.
Returned/Disembarked Oxfordshire 4.8.1919.
Discharged 11.10.1919.
Final Rank Trooper, 10th Light Horse Regiment, 3rd Light Horse Brigade.
Medical Condition NK.
Awards and Medals British War Medal, Victory Medal.
Notes Brother H. J. Bright died 1910 and Brother Frank did not serve.
Photos RMS 'Karmala'. Photograph sourced and reproduced with permission of Great Southern Postcard
             10th Light Horse concealed and shaded by an oasis near Romani 1916. Photographer unknown photograph source AWM I02650A
             Australian Light Horsemen watering horses enroute for Beersheba. Photographer unknown, photograph source AWM H16048

Information Source
AWM I02650A. 10th Light Horse concealed and shaded by an oasis near Romani 1916. Photographer unknown photograph sourced from thePictorial Collection of the Australia War Memorial
AWM  H16048. Australian Light Horsemen watering horses enroute for Beersheba. Photographer unknown, photograph sourced from the Pictorial Collection of the Australian War Memorial
Australian War Memorial Embarkation Roll- Robert James Bright
Great Southern Postcards.  RMS 'Karmala'. Photograph sourced and reproduced with permission of Great Southern Postcards,  http://www.greatsoutherncards.com.au/contact.htm
Guildford Primary School Honour Roll
NAA: B2455, Bright R J 3170


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