NSW Lancers Memorial Museum in Parramatta, New South Wales | Non-governmental organisation (NGO)

NSW Lancers Memorial Museum

Locality: Parramatta, New South Wales

Phone: +61 405 482 814

Address: Lancer Barracks 2 Smith Street 2150 Parramatta, NSW, Australia

Website: http://www.lancers.org.au

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25.01.2022 Land Combat Vehicle System https://www.defence.gov.au//EquippingDefen/Land%20400.asp

25.01.2022 Below is a link to the City of Parramatta History and Heritage site that has an insight into the history of the 1st/15th Royal New South Wales Lancers and its Museum. Interesting reading........ https://historyandheritage.cityofparramatta.nsw.gov.au//1s

25.01.2022 BOER WAR ARTIFACTS....... The siege of Ellands River lasted from 4th to 17th August 1900, during the Boer War, Australias first but "forgotten" war. It was the first time Australian (and Rhodesian) Colonial Volunteers fought the Boers WITHOUT British support - or, perhaps, interference. Surrounded by a far stronger force of Boers and commanded by their most successful commander, Koos de la Rey, they were written off by the British. The little garrison hung on against all o...dds until eventually relieved - a triumph of discipline, determination and courage. The flag remains a mystery. First-hand accounts of the siege report the garrison running up Union Jacks which were promptly shot down by the Boers. Was this one of those hand-made flags, or just a wartime souvenir, presented to E. Cochrane, and later gifted to the Lancers Museum? If you have any thoughts or further information please contact Ian Hawthorn, Vice-President, NSW Lancers Memorial Museum direct: [email protected]

24.01.2022 Parked in static at the Museum, Named in memory of Frank Tattersall

24.01.2022 . MUSEUM to Open Again ... The Lancer Barracks and Museum are to re-open again for public visits, Post COVID-19, on Sunday 5 July 2020. The protocols to be followed in the re-opening as laid down by the NSW Government and the Army are quite strict, they can be viewed on our website at https://www.lancers.org.au/Governance/NSWLmuspostCOVID19.pdf During the pandemic closure, the Museum volunteers have been quite busy. A series of videos were put together detailing the work, on our https://lancers.org.au/site/Lockdown_Video3.php . The last in the series, scripted and presented by the Museums Vice-President, Ian Hawthorn welcoming visitors in the trust that we would be able to re-open soon. Do take the time to visit us. The barracks also has changed a bit. The ablution block has been replaced with a much upgraded facility and the Circ.1898 Staff Sergeants Cottage that now houses the Officers Mess and its historic collection has been re-furbished exposing the original brickwork. Brickwork that has proven to be in excellent condition. Opening hours are each Sunday 1000 hrs to 1500 hrs and by appointment for groups booking by contacting [email protected] See you soon

24.01.2022 A Video commemorating VP day prepared by Parramatta City Council on the Museum https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5_OTSRphNI

22.01.2022 Men of the 1st Light Horse Regiment below Steeles Post at Anzac Cove.

22.01.2022 #YourADF supporting the NSW Police Force at their Jingellic and Bringenbrong COVID-19 border control point. #OpCOVID19Assist

21.01.2022 So you thought they would stop in time for you to change lanes Eh!

21.01.2022 Mount, dismount! Say again over.......

21.01.2022 An Item of interest........... The Memorial commemorating the 2nd Anglo/Boer War 1899-1902 at Lismore, NSW. The memorial is considered to be the finest of its kind in the State, initially costing 250. It is a massive structure, stands 20ft. high, composed of a life-size figure of a New South Wales Lancer in khaki uniform, standing at ease with his lance. The figure is executed in hammered copper, and preserves the realistic appearance of the Lancer. The statue was sculptured and poured by M Jones. Erected in 1902 it still stands in Lismore. The original plaster master now proudly stands in the NSW Lancers Memorial Museum in Parramatta on display.

20.01.2022 The Camden troop, 1st/21st Light Horse (New South Wales Lancers), at a camp at the Goulburn Showground. Circa 1930s.

20.01.2022 WE REMEMBER........2017 A professional video clip from drone and ground prepared by Fly-FX of The NSW Lancers Memorial Museums Matilda MkIII Ace and Matt McMahons Matilda MkII. Not often you get two mobile Matilda Tanks working up in the field these days.

20.01.2022 Some cracking photos of 2nd/14th Light Horse Regiments Live Fire Training this week Photographer: TPR Jon Goedhart

20.01.2022 Ever heard of "The Donkey Troop".... https://lancers.org.au/site/Donkeys.php

19.01.2022 Vehicles of the 15th Northern Rivers Lancers - circa 1949/1950.

18.01.2022 WE REMEMBER......... Almost a year ago, Menangle Military Muster with ACE out and about. No details if it is on again in 2020

18.01.2022 Below is a link to a presentation by the 1st/15th Royal New South Wales Lancers Commanding Officer, Lt. Col A White summarising the many activities the Regiment has been involved in over the last 12 months. "2020 - A Year unlike no other" https://dra2020.cibaweb.com.au/Present13.php

17.01.2022 Officers of the 1st Light Horse (NSW Lancers) - circa 1940.

16.01.2022 Ahhh Technology affects us all

14.01.2022 This is a community service announcement. Keep your distance and stay at least 1 adult kangaroo away from each other. Thankyou.

13.01.2022 Your Regiment supporting NSW Police Force at a border control point on the Hume Freeway, Albury, #OpCOVID19Assist

12.01.2022 The Australian and New Zealand branches of the Western Front Association collaborated with the United Kingdom WFA to deliver a special Zoom Webinar talk, especi...ally designed to be of interest to members and our supporters (including the Families and Friends of the First AIF) in these two countries. We are grateful for the support of the UK WFA in preparing this international webinar. Over 100 people attended from Australia, NZ, thecUK and the US. Haig and his Dominion Commanders Christopher Pugsley. On Saturday the 14th of November, Dr Christopher Pugsley delivered a talk from New Zealand on the subject Haig, and his Dominion Commanders, the evolution of professional Citizen Armies on the Western Front. The WFA and the FFFAIF share a commitment to remembering service in the First World War.

12.01.2022 August 2020 Lancers Despatch available.

10.01.2022 1st/15th Royal New South Wales Lancers 1/15 RNSWL paired Armoured Cavalry Regiment (ACR) - 2/14 LHR (QMI) getting rounds down range. The two unit COs continue to discuss shared training opportunities balanced around current operational requirements and COVID-19 border restrictions. #tenaxinfide

09.01.2022 The weapon all crews loved to store behind the seat

08.01.2022 https://asiapacificdefencereporter.com/australian-lynx-kf4/

08.01.2022 The Lancers at work in Op Covid Assist

08.01.2022 WAS GALLIPOLI ALL SUN, HEAT DUST AND FLIES? When most Australians think about the fighting on the Gallipoli Peninsula in 1915, they think of sun, unrelenting heat, dust and flies. This might be because the original landings, always the trigger for ANZAC Day commemorations, occurred in the Northern Hemisphere Spring. Most mass media films dealing with Gallipoli focus on the landings and subsequent bloody major battles, such as Lone Pine and the Chessboard. ... The first and second scene below, Light Horsemen and their dugouts at Ryries Post on the front line, is not untypical soldiers in shirt sleeves, slouched hats turned down for shade, bare rock and parched earth. However, the picture changes dramatically with the onset of late Autumn and Winter. Temperatures on the Gallipoli Peninsula plummeted; blue skies and sun gave way to lowering, stormy clouds and high winds; and the ground became frozen and covered with snow. The troops, not ideally equipped for the heat, dust and sun were woefully ill-equipped and under prepared for Winters freezing conditions. Problems keeping them supplied in such conditions was one of the many reasons for the eventual evacuation and the end of a disastrous campaign. The Museum has an extensive collection devoted to the 1st Light Horse in WW1. From : - the Gallipoli and Beersheba charge diaries of Light Horsemen who fought there, -pine cones from the original lone pine which was completely destroyed during the bloody battle. - an internationally rare example of the worlds very first anti-tank gun and, oh yes, - if youve never seen a period copy of the Treaty of Versailles (the infamous treaty that ended WW1 and started WW2), come along and take a look at the Museums copy. Ian Hawthorn Vice President NSW Lancers Memorial Museum

08.01.2022 An Item of Interest....... The photo shows an Ottoman supply train that still lays where it was ambushed by Lawrence of Arabia in March 1917 on the Hejaz railway during World War I. The Hejaz) railway was a narrow-gauge railway (3 ft 5 track ) that ran from Damascus to Medina, through the Hejaz region of modern day Saudi Arabia, It was a part of the Ottoman railway network and the original goal was to extend the line from the Haydarpaa Terminal in Kadikoy beyond Damascus to the holy city of Mecca. However, construction was interrupted due to the outbreak of World War I, and it reached no further than Medina, 400 kilometres (250 mi) short of Mecca. T.E. Lawrence (AKA Lawrence of Arabia) also led an attack on the Aba el Naam Station, taking 30 prisoners and inflicting 70 casualties on the garrison.

08.01.2022 Ok What Yr, and is it a Mess Photo?

07.01.2022 A snapshot of the Lancers in WWII

07.01.2022 #YourADF personnel are supporting New South Wales Police Force at border control checkpoints on the New South Wales-Victoria border as part of the response to the COVID-19 pandemic on #OPCOVID19Assist

06.01.2022 ACE on the move again.... positioning to 'hold ground' for the Bicentenary Parade of the Lancer Barracks

06.01.2022 The members of the 1st Army Tank Battalion - circa 1942.

06.01.2022 What does this map cover?......... Its part of the NSW Lancers Museum collection which has been professionally assessed as arguably the finest collection of Turkish WW1 maps and field documents in Australia. It was captured by Lt. (later Lt. Col.) Halfdan Wikner who, for some reason known only to himself, decided to land in his RE8 reconnaissance aircraft at Amman in 1918 ( he was an observer seconded from the 1st LHR), before the Turkish Army had finally evacuated the city... and captured these maps from a Turkish Officer. For years these maps and documents defied the Museums best efforts to have them translated Turkish people living in Australia could not read them. It eventually turned out that they are written in Ottoman Turk, a language abolished by Kemal Attaturk after the war as he established the modern Turkish Republic. Digital copies were be sent to Ankara University, where a handful of scholars, expert in Ottoman Turk did the translation an expensive business. Turns out this map is not even from WW1. Between 1912 and 1913, the Balkans War was fought between the Ottoman Empire and Greece. The map covers parts of modern-day Greece, Albania and Macedonia. The sweeping Ottoman script on the South West of the mainland is the town of Ioannina, site of the siege of a large Ottoman force. When Ioannina surrendered, the Ottomans lost the war. Most of the other documents in the Museums collection are from Gallipoli and Palestine. However, the riddle is how this collection, including the map from the Balkans War, ended up in Amman to be captured in 1918. The answer might be found in captured Ottoman Officers field notebook, contained in the collection. However, that would be very expensive to have translated and must wait for another day. Anyone out there who can translate Ottoman Turk or who has a contact that can put some light on the map and the notebook notations, please contact our Vice-President, Ian Hawthorne at [email protected]

04.01.2022 Members of the NSW Police Force and Australian Defence Force gathered today to commemorate a former officer from the late nineteenth and early twentieth century... at a grave site in Corowa in the state’s south. In September 2020, a member of the ADF was performing duties as part of Operation Border Closure, when he began researching a historical link between the two organisations. Inquiries revealed Thomas Charles Morris, a former NSW Police Sergeant and NSW Lancer, was the officer in charge of Holbrook Police Station during the Spanish Flu outbreak in 1919, the last time the NSW/Victoria border was closed. Thomas Charles Morris was born in 1876 in Singleton, NSW. The son of a contractor, he followed his father into the family business before joining the local detachment of NSW Lancers at the age of 18. He left Sydney in 1899 for training at Aldershot, where he remained until the start of the war, when the majority of men volunteered for service at the Cape and came under fire on many occasions. Trooper Morris went on to take part in numerous engagements until the Lancers Squadron was withdrawn in late 1900. Remembered as a humble man, Trooper Morris did not speak of his actions. While conducting a mounted reconnaissance, his patrol was ambushed. Noticing that a fellow Lancer’s horse was felled, Trooper Morris rode straight back into heavy enemy fire, and with bullets scattering on three sides, rescued Harrison and then rode through the gauntlet of heavy enemy fire for the second time. "The first time you go into action," said his townsman, Trooper Waddell, "you think every bullet is going to hit you. After a while you imagine none will." Trooper Morris was invalided to NSW with typhoid in 1900. In 1902, he was appointed to the NSW Police, bearing police registration number 7848. He served as a police officer for 30 years, achieving the rank of sergeant in 1918, before retiring at Corowa as sergeant first class in 1934. During his policing career, Sgt Morris was involved in a shoot-out with a bushranger named Batson in Jingellic, and also led the arrest of the ‘Staghorn Flat’ murderer. In February 1938, Lord Wakehurst presented Tom Morris with the Imperial Service Medal at NSW Government House. The letter from the Home Office, Whitehall, London, which accompanied the medal, was as follows: "Sir, I am commanded to forward an Imperial Service Medal which His Majesty the King has been graciously pleased to award to you in recognition of the meritorious services which you have rendered. I am, Sir, yours faithfully, R.R. Scott, Secretary and Registrar of the Imperial Service Order." Morris married Amy Clare Nickson on 5 March 1906 in Coolamon, and had three children; Gladys Ellen, Edwin James and Irene. He was buried at the Corowa old cemetery on Wednesday 5 October 1955. NSW Police Southern Region Commander, Assistant Commissioner Joe Cassar APM, said today is an opportune time to reflect on the courage and dedication of an officer who has served in both organisations. Historically speaking we have a number of members who have served across both the NSW Police Force and the Australian Defence Force, and their service to NSW and Australia does not go unnoticed, Assistant Commissioner Cassar said. Today we are taking the time to reflect, commemorate and celebrate the actions of one officer across both organisations. I would also like to take this opportunity to extend my sincere thanks to the men and women from the ADF who have provided invaluable support to both local and deployed police during the border operation this year. The partnership between our organisations has been paramount to the success of the operation, Assistant Commissioner Cassar said.

04.01.2022 Some questions were raised that the M113A1(S) MRV did not swim. Photos of an MRV swimming in 1987 Georges River.

03.01.2022 An amazing mural in Gallipoli Barracks Sergeants Mess of a water hole at Holsworthy NSW depicting NSW Lancers in 1910.

03.01.2022 The 1st/15th Royal New South Wales Lancers conducted a parade to celebrate the Bicentenary of the Lancer Barracks at Parramatta on Saturday 21st November. Since 1820 the barracks are the oldest continually occupied barracks on mainland Australia. Below is a link of the parade also showing the Museums vehicles surrounding the parade ground https://lancers.org.au/site/Lancer_Barracks_200.php

03.01.2022 #OTD: Battle of Romani On the 3rd of August, we commemorate the Battle of Romani, one of the most important and decisive victories in World War 1. This battle w...ould put a stop to the Turkish threat to the Suez Canal, and mark the beginning of the British and Australian forces drive out of Egypt and into Palestine. In the late hours of the 3rd of August 1916, Turkish soldiers darted across the Sinai Desert towards the Romani tableland. Ahead lay isolated outposts of Major-General Harry Chauvels Anzac Mounted Division, which barred the way to the Turks objective, the Suez Canal. Close to dawn the Turkish army sighted the Australians and charged forward, slicing their way through the thin defences, destroying the posts before any resistance could be organised. This would be the beginning of the battle of Romani, a conflict which, after two days of intense bloody fighting, would destroy Turkish hopes of controlling the vital man-made waterway, the Suez Canal. Heavily outnumbered, the 1st Light Horse Brigade was forced to fall back but as the day progressed both mounted and infantry reinforcements steadily arrived, allowing the position to be stabilized around a massive dune known as Mount Royston, after the charismatic light horse officer Lieutenant Colonel "Galloping Jack" Royston. The position was held throughout the night and before dawn the next morning the 1st and 2nd Light Horse Brigades advanced on foot with the bayonet under the cover of a heavy British artillery bombardment. Turkish resistance collapsed at this point, and large numbers of prisoners were taken. At 6.30 am fresh troops of the 3rd Light Brigade were turned loose in pursuit of the retreating Turks. The Australians and new Zealanders launched a frenzied attack on the enemy still holding Wellington Ridge that the impetus of their charge drove the defenders back almost to the crest. It was too much for the Turkish soldiers, with the Australian and New Zealand troops taking a decisive victory. A final pursuit of the fleeing Turkish soldiers ensued with many falling back to their main position across the Sinai Dessert. The battle of Romani was over. The Australian casualties across the two day battle are estimated at approximately 623. The Turkish casualties were much higher at 9,200, including 4,000 prisoners. --------------------------------------------------------------- If you spot an error, please send me a message. Join our group here: https://business.facebook.com/groups/2626189084317964

02.01.2022 1st Light Horse (NSW Lancers) machine gunners!

01.01.2022 WE REMEMBER......... On 6 May 1915 orders were received for the 1st Light Horse Regiment AIF to leave for the Gallipoli Peninsula, without horses, Major Hugh Vernon to command, Lieutenant Colonel John Meredith to remain as camp commandant at Maadi Cairo, Egypt with all the horses and such Brigade personnel left behind. Lieutenant Frank Weir was appointed camp adjutant. Local Egyptians were employed at the rate of one man to three horses to assist in stables and to allow reinf...Continue reading

01.01.2022 Attached is a link to a clip showing the NSW Lancers Museum volunteers keeping the Museum running whilst it is closed to the public due to the Covid-19 pandemic. As soon as we are allowed to open full details will be posted. In the meantime if you have interest in maintaining our vehicle fleet details are in the clip.... https://www.lancers.org.au/site/Lockdown_Video.php