10 ANZAC DAY RACE DAY The Australian Waler horse breed had a significant role in the First World War, and historian Andrew Lemon enlightens us as to exactly what that was. It has been said that the horses known as Australian Walers are unsung heroes of the First World War. If that was ever true, it is not true now. In 2001, singer-songwriter Eric Bogle (the man who gave us “The Band Played Waltzing Matilda”) wrote a moving tribute to the horses who served and to the men who loved them and had to leave them behind, “As If He Knows”. By Dr Andrew Lemon THE AUSTRALIAN WALER Members of the Australian Lighthorse Infantry in Alexandria, Egypt in 1915. (Australian War Memorial)
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