The Great Ride - re-enactment
Past Event
The Great Ride tells the story of the Australian Mounted Division led by the 10th Light Horse regiment, who in just 12 days covered over 800 kilometres of treacherous desert and mountains in Palestine and Syria in pursuit of the Turks and Germans, ending in the fall of Damascus and soon after, the capitulation of the Ottoman Empire.
The 10th Light Horse leading the Australian Mounted Division rode into Damascus arriving 3 hours ahead of Lawrence of Arabia, and the dentist from Narrogin, Lt Col Arthur Olden took the surrender of Damascus!