Harry Chauvel

General Sir Henry George Chauvel, GCMG, KCB , more usually known as Sir Harry Chauvel, was a senior officer of the Australian Imperial Force who fought at Gallipoli and during the Sinai and Palestine Campaign in the Middle Eastern theatre of the First World War. He was the first Australian to attain the rank of lieutenant general and later general, and the first to lead a corps. As commander of the Desert Mounted Corps, he was responsible for one of the most decisive victories and fastest pursuits in military history.

Henry George Chauvel was born in Tabulam, New South Wales, onApril 1865, the second child of a grazier, Charles Henry Edward Chauvel, and his wife Fanny Ada Mary, ne James. By 1884, Charles Henry Chauvels station at Tabulam consisted of 96,000 acres , on which he raised 12,000160head of cattle and 320160horses. From an early age Henry George Chauvel was known as Harry. He was educated at Mr Belchers School near Goulburn, before going to Sydney Grammar School from 1874 to 1880, and Toowoomba Grammar School from 1881 to 1882. While at Sydney Grammar, Harry served in the school cadet unit, rising to the rank of lance corporal. In 1886, Charles Henry was given permission to raise two troops of cavalry. OnMarch 1886, he was commissioned as a captain in the Upper Clarence Light Horse, with his sons Arthur and Harry becoming second lieutenants, while his two younger sons became troopers. The unit escorted Lord Carrington, Governor of New South Wales, when he formally opened the railwa

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