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Army's most senior post.  
At Beersheba in October 1917,
By September 1918, Chauvel was
Chauvel was appointed Inspector General, the
Harry Chauvel was a senior 
He commanded the 1st Light 
He won victories at Romani and Magdhaba,
Horse Brigade and later the
Imperial Force who fought at Gallipoli 
In March 1916, Chauvel became commander of
Megiddo. After the war, 
Queensland Mounted Infantry in
The son of a grazier, Chauvel 
able to effect a secret 
and in the Middle East during
and launch a surprise attack on the enemy 
and nearly won the First Battle of Gaza. 
by his father. After seeing service during
captain in a unit organised 
commanded a company of
corps. 
first Australian to attain the rank of
his light horse captured the town and its 
history's last great cavalry charges.
lieutenant general and later general, and the first to lead a
officer of the Australian
redeployment of three of his mounted divisions
strike, he became a regular officer in
that won the Battle of
the 1891 Australian shearers' 
the 1st Division at Gallipoli. 
the Anzac Mounted Division. 
the Boer War. 
the First World War. He was the 
vital water supply in one of
was commissioned in 1886 as a