Ceremonial unveiling of the Desert Mounted Corps Memorial
On the morning of 19 April 1968, the Prime Minister, Right Honourable J G Gorton, MP, unveiled a memorial to the members of the Australian Light Horse, the New Zealand Mounted Rifles, the Imperial Camel Corps and the Australian Flying Corps who died in Eygpt, Palestine and Syria during 1916-1918. Commonly known as the Desert Mounted Corps Memorial, the sculpture is a second casting of the statuary at Albany, Western Australia. The original stood for many years at Port Said but was badly damaged during Suez crisis in 1956. The group was remodelled by Raymond B Ewers for the Albany site and erected in 1964 on the original base, which was brought to Australia with the consent of the United Arab Republic. Surviving members of the Desert Mounted Corps from all over the Commonwealth attended the Canberra ceremony. The order of ceremonial included speeches by the Minister for the Interior (The Honourable P J Nixon, MP), Deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand (The Right Honourable J R Marshall, MP), Colonel the Honourable Sir Wilfred Kent Hughes, KBE, MVO, MC, ED, and Mr Gorton. The dedication was performed by the three Chaplains General of the Army; the Ode was read by Mr H C Newman, CBE; wreaths were laid by the Prime Minister and Mr Marshall, Sir Wilfred Kent Hughes (representing the Desert Mounted Corps) and Air Marshal Sir Richard Williams, KBE, CB, DS, on behalf of the Australian Flying Corps.
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The view from the Desert Mounted Corps Memorial on Mount Clarence
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The view from the Desert Mounted Corps Memorial on Mount Clarence
TOP 50 ALBANY Attractions (Things to Do & See)
Best places to visit in Albany - Australia, all things to do or tourist attractions list in Albany, city at the southern tip of Western Australia. The most popular tourist attractions in Albany is Middleton Beach, Little Beach, Albany Wind Farm, Emu Point, The Gap and Natural Bridge and National Anzac Centre.
Others beautiful places in Albany is Torndirrup National Park, The Blow Holes, Old Farm - Strawberry Hill, Princess Royal Fortress, Goode Beach, Bald Head Walk Trail, Mt Melville Lookout, Padre White Lookout, King George Sound, Ellen Cove Boardwalk, Frenchman Bay, Muttonbird Beach and Shelter Island, Kalgan River, Convoy Lookout, West Cape Howe National Park, Jimmy Newells Harbour, Waterfall Beach, Misery Beach, Stony Hill & Peak Head, Betty's Beach, Lake Seppings, Quaranup-Point Possession Trail, Albany Waterfront Marina, Gull Rock National Park, Sharp Point, Rotary Lookout Albany, Cable Beach, Ledge Beach and Point King Lighthouse.
Besides that, others popular things to do in Albany is visiting Desert Mounted Corps Memorial, Albany's Historic Whaling Station, Replica of the Brig Amity, The Albany Convict Gaol & Museum, Dog Rock, Great Southern Distilling Company, Albany Bird Park and Marron Farm, Albany Heritage Park, Chainsaw Sculpture Drive, Oranje Tractor Wine, Torbay Glass Studio, The Church of Saint John the Evangelist, Eyre Park, Albany Farmers Market etc.
All about top 50 Albany tourist attractions, what to do, where to go or things to do list in Albany is in this video. Enjoy your holiday :)
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Drone footage of Albany's ANZAC memorial.
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David Dixon Porter | Wikipedia audio article
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David Dixon Porter
00:02:21 1 Family
00:04:45 2 Time of training
00:04:54 2.1 In the Mexican Navy
00:06:46 3 Peacetime navy
00:08:03 4 Marriage and family
00:09:10 5 Advance to officer
00:09:34 5.1 Mission to Santo Domingo
00:10:50 6 In command of ships
00:11:00 6.1 Mexican War
00:12:58 6.2 Civilian service
00:14:28 7 Civil War
00:14:37 7.1 iPowhatan/i and the relief of Fort Pickens
00:16:43 7.2 Mortar fleet at New Orleans and Vicksburg
00:19:06 7.3 Acting rear admiral: the Vicksburg Campaign
00:24:28 7.4 Red River Expedition
00:26:00 7.5 Capture of Fort Fisher
00:28:32 7.6 Tour of Richmond
00:29:47 7.7 Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
00:30:21 8 Postwar
00:30:30 8.1 U.S. Naval Academy
00:31:40 8.2 Presidency of Ulysses S. Grant
00:32:35 8.3 Final years
00:34:28 9 Dates of rank
00:35:09 10 Books
00:36:11 11 Legacy
00:36:41 12 See also
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David Dixon Porter (June 8, 1813 – February 13, 1891) was a United States Navy admiral and a member of one of the most distinguished families in the history of the U.S. Navy. Promoted as the second U.S. Navy officer ever to attain the rank of admiral, after his adoptive brother David G. Farragut, Porter helped improve the Navy as the Superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy after significant service in the American Civil War.
Porter began naval service as a midshipman at the age of 10 years under his father, Commodore David Porter, on the frigate USS John Adams. For the remainder of his life, he was associated with the sea. Porter served in the Mexican War in the attack on the fort at the City of Vera Cruz. At the outbreak of the Civil War, he was part of a plan to hold Fort Pickens, near Pensacola, Florida, for the Union; its execution disrupted the effort to relieve the garrison at Fort Sumter, leading to its fall. Porter commanded an independent flotilla of mortar boats at the capture of New Orleans. Later, he was advanced to the rank of (acting) rear admiral in command of the Mississippi River Squadron, which cooperated with the army under Major General Ulysses S. Grant in the Vicksburg Campaign. After the fall of Vicksburg, he led the naval forces in the difficult Red River Campaign in Louisiana. Late in 1864, Porter was transferred from the interior to the Atlantic coast, where he led the U.S. Navy in the joint assaults on Fort Fisher, the final significant naval action of the war.
Porter worked to raise the standards of the U.S. Navy in the position of Superintendent of the Naval Academy when it was restored to Annapolis. He initiated reforms in the curriculum to increase professionalism. In the early days of President Grant's administration, Porter was de facto Secretary of the Navy. When his adoptive brother David G. Farragut was advanced from rank of vice-admiral to admiral, Porter took his previous position; likewise, when Farragut died, Porter became the second man to hold the newly created rank of admiral. He gathered a corps of like-minded officers devoted to naval reform.
Porter's administration of the Navy Department aroused powerful opposition by some in Congress, who forced the Secretary of the Navy Adolph E. Borie to resign. His replacement, George Robeson, curtailed Porter's power and eased him into semi-retirement.
Military history of Australia during World War I | Wikipedia audio article
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00:03:12 1 Outbreak of the war
00:05:50 2 German New Guinea
00:10:59 3 First Australian Imperial Force
00:13:46 4 Gallipoli
00:13:55 4.1 Background
00:17:09 4.2 Landing at Anzac Cove
00:19:03 4.3 Krithia
00:20:01 4.4 Turkish counter-attack
00:20:56 4.5 August offensive
00:24:03 4.6 Evacuation
00:26:42 5 Egypt and Palestine
00:26:52 5.1 Reorganisation in Egypt
00:28:13 5.2 Fighting the Senussi Arabs
00:29:25 5.3 Battle of Romani
00:31:34 5.4 Battle of Magdhaba
00:35:16 5.5 Battle of Rafa
00:36:17 5.6 Fighting around Gaza, 1917
00:39:00 5.7 Fighting advance
00:42:59 5.8 Jerusalem
00:44:33 5.9 Transjordan operations
00:45:39 5.10 Final offensive
00:47:18 6 Western Front
00:47:28 6.1 Transfer to Europe
00:51:34 6.2 Battle of the Somme, 1916
00:54:46 6.3 Battle of Bullecourt
00:56:27 6.4 Battle of Messines
00:58:15 6.5 Third Battle of Ypres
01:00:22 6.6 German Spring Offensive, 1918
01:02:36 6.7 Hundred Days Offensive
01:05:14 7 Other theatres
01:06:33 8 Australian Flying Corps
01:06:43 8.1 Formation
01:07:27 8.2 Mesopotamian Half Flight
01:09:20 8.3 Operations in the Middle East
01:10:52 8.4 Fighting on the Western Front
01:14:05 8.5 Legacy
01:15:16 9 Royal Australian Navy operations
01:19:07 10 Home front
01:19:16 10.1 Australian Military Forces on home service
01:22:35 10.2 Conscription
01:25:41 10.3 Internment, censorship and other special measures
01:28:30 10.4 Economy
01:33:27 11 After the war
01:33:37 11.1 Repatriation and demobilisation
01:37:25 11.2 Legacy
01:40:51 12 Statistics
01:41:36 13 See also
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In Australia, the outbreak of World War I was greeted with considerable enthusiasm. Even before Britain declared war on Germany on 4 August 1914, the nation pledged its support alongside other states of the British Empire and almost immediately began preparations to send forces overseas to participate in the conflict. The first campaign that Australians were involved in was in German New Guinea after a hastily raised force known as the Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force was dispatched from Australia to seize German possessions in the Pacific in September 1914. At the same time another expeditionary force, initially consisting of 20,000 men and known as the First Australian Imperial Force (AIF), was raised for service overseas.
The AIF departed Australia in November 1914 and, after several delays due to the presence of German naval vessels in the Indian Ocean, arrived in Egypt, where they were initially used to defend the Suez Canal. In early 1915, however, it was decided to carry out an amphibious landing on the Gallipoli peninsula with the goal of opening up a second front and securing the passage of the Dardanelles. The Australians and New Zealanders, grouped together as the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC), went ashore on 25 April 1915 and for the next eight months the Anzacs, alongside their British, French and other allies, fought a costly and ultimately unsuccessful campaign against the Turks.
The force was evacuated from the peninsula in December 1915 and returned to Egypt, where the AIF was expanded. In early 1916 it was decided that the infantry divisions would be sent to France, where they took part in many of the major battles fought on the Western Front. Most of the light horse units remained in the Middle East until the end of the war, carrying out further operations against the Turks in Egypt and Palestine. Small numbers of Australians served in other theatres of war. While the main focus of the Australian military's effort was the ground war, air and naval forces were also committed. Squadrons of the Australian Flying Corps served in the Middle East and on the Western Front, while elements of the R ...