Beersheba War Cemetery, Palestine. - By October 1917, General Allenby's force had been entrenched in front of a strong Turkish position along the Gaza-Beersheba road for some months, but they were now ready to launch an attack with Beersheba as its first objective. On 31 October, the attack was carried out by the XXth Corps (10th, 53rd, 60th and 74th Divisions) on the west, and the Desert Mounted Corps on the east. That evening the 4th Australian Light Horse Brigade charged over the Turkish trenches into the town. The cemetery was made immediately on the fall of the town, remaining in use until July 1918, by which time 139 burials had been made It was greatly increased after the Armistice when burials were brought in from a number of scattered sites and small burial grounds. The cemetery now contains 1,241 Commonwealth burials of the First World War, 67 of them unidentified.
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Born 1895
Died 1917
Australian Imperial Force 134
Australian Imperial Force 134 Lance Corporal 4th Australian Light Horse Brigade 12th Light Horse Regiment
Born 1884
Died 1917
British Army 2986 Private Welsh Regiment
British Army 241167 Private Welsh Regiment 5th Battalion
Born 1870
Died 1917
British Army Major Middlesex Hussars (County of London Yeomanry) 1st Battalion
Born 1895
Died 1917
New Zealand Expeditionary Force 24852 Wellington Mounted Rifles
Born 1889
Died 1917
British Army 201705 Private Royal Sussex Regiment 1st/4th Bn.
Born 1878
Died 1917
British Army Quarter Master and Captain Warwickshire Yeomanry
British Army Captain Warwickshire Yeomanry 1st Squadron