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Remount Park, Holsworthy

Remount Park, Holsworthy
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Remount Park - Photo by Liverpool City Library
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Remount Park - Photo by Liverpool City Library
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Remount Park - Photo by Liverpool City Library
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Description / Background

Remount Park in Holsworthy, NSW is on the grounds of an original remount depot for the Australian Light Horse. The park stands in honour of the Light Horse brigade and memorialises the campaign of the Light Horse in the First World War. The park symbolises the Nile Delta in Egypt. The pathway is in the colours the Light Horsemen would have seen in Egypt and the vegetation is also the same as seen by them throughout their journey.

Plaques along the pathway trace the path of the light horsemen through the war, culminating at the Last Farewell First World War Memorial Statue, a life-size sculpture of a horse and a human figure. The Light Horsemen learned at the end of the war that their horses would not be returning with them. The statue is dedicated to the memory of the Australian Light Horse.

Inscription

Plaque 1

Remount Park. A memorial to the Australian Light Horse.

On the site of this park there once stood a Remount Depot for the Austrlian Light Horse [ALH]. This memorial avenue traces the path followed by the ALH regiments during the campaigns of the First World War.

The delta at the start of the avenue symbolises the Nile Delta in Egypt, where the active life of the ALH began.

The texture and colour of the pathway is that of the deserts over which the Lighthorsemen fought.

Along the route the vegetation represents that found in the places where the ALH campaigns occurred. Eucalypts along the avenue are those also found in Egypt where the troops awaited their initial orders.

In the Parade Ground the sculpture "Last Farewell" captures the bond between the lighthorseman and his mount.

Plaque 2

Australian Light Horse depart Albany for Egypt Nov 1914

"Fine with fresh breeze. Sea blue with horses. Ships keeping station fair. Wireless received, notifying Britain had declared war on Turkey". Cpt C H Spurge.

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Address
2 Light Horse Parade
Holsworthy NSW 2173
Local Government Area
Liverpool, City of
Setting
Garden/park
Memorial type
Garden/park
Recorded by
Liverpool City Library
Year of construction
1997
Conflict/s
First World War, 1914–18