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5th Light Horse Regiment (Australia)
The 5th Light Horse Regiment was a mounted infantry regiment of the Australian Army during the First World War. The regiment was raised in August 1914, and assigned to the 2nd Light Horse Brigade. The regiment fought against the forces of the Ottoman Empire, in Egypt, at Gallipoli, on the Sinai Peninsula, and in Palestine and Jordan. After the armistice the regiment eventually returned to Australia in March 1919. For its role in the war the regiment was awarded sixteen battle honours.
During the inter-war years, the regiment was re-raised as a part-time unit based in the Wide Bay–Burnett region of Queensland, adopting the designation of the "Wide Bay and Burnett Light Horse (QMI)". It was later converted to a motor regiment during the early years of the Second World War but it was disbanded in mid-1943 without having been deployed overseas.
==Formation==
The 5th Light Horse Regiment was raised in September 1914 as part of the all volunteer Australian Imperial Force, at Brisbane from volunteers from Queensland, and was assigned to the 2nd Light Horse Brigade.〔 Light horse regiments normally comprised twenty-five officers and 497 other ranks serving in three squadrons, each of six troops.〔Gullett 1941, p. 54.〕 Each troop was divided into eight sections, of four men each. In action one man of each section, was nominated as a horse holder reducing the regiment's rifle strength by a quarter.〔Horner and Williams, Chapter: Setting up the Light Horse〕
All Australian Light Horse regiments used cavalry unit designations, but were mounted infantry,〔Gullett 1941, p. 29.〕 and mounted exclusively on the Australian Waler horse.〔Gullett 1941, p. 38.〕
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