Family saddles up on journey to remember Beersheba battle

DURING the week Jelica Briscetto is a year nine student at Lockyer District High, while her mother Tracey Allen and stepfather Chris Allen manage the farm and their Waler Horse breeding stud.

In their spare time, the trio spends hours doing dress rehearsals and practising the exact commands executed by the Australian Light Horse (ALH).

They have invested thousands of dollars in equipment and consider it a passion to locate and purchase original equipment including saddles, bayonets, fly-vails, horse-shoe bags and ammunition holders that wereas used during the First World War.

This week all three have travelled two days, by road with their three horses Mirra, Jez and Zo, to take part in the 100 years, 100 Horse commemoration of the Battle of Beersheba.

The battle is significant as one of the last charges of the First World War and helped turn the strongly-held Turkish line, which started the process to push Turkey back until it had to surrender.

Read the article in The Chronicle (Toowoomba).