This weekend the Scone Polo Club is staging the inaugural Charge of the Beersheba Tournament. Four teams will compete for the trophy beginning Saturday afternoon. Finals on Sunday starting at 11am. Lunch catered by Serena White, everyone invited. Click Here to see the Saturday Draw.
Terrific trophies and Taylah Hayes drawing live for the pony prizes. John May Steer will be present in full cavalry uniform. There will also be a tent pegging competition before the finals on Sunday. Peter Haydon will be bringing some Beersheba exhibition items.
Click Here to read an excerpt from The Regimental History of the 7th Light Horse. John Peisley’s grandfather was a member of this Regiment.
Everyone welcome, please come and enjoy the history and the polo.
Media Release
100 YEARS ON, SCONE POLO CLUB HONOURS THE COURAGE OF THE LIGHT HORSE
On 14-15 October 2017, the Scone Polo Club will honour the courage of the Australian Light Horsemen that took part in what is widely regarded as the most courageous and successful Cavalry Charge.
“The Charge of Beersheba” by the 4th Light Horse Regiment and 12th Light Horse Regiment on 31 October 1917 broke the stalemate in the Palestine Campaign during the First World War and eventually lead to the liberation of Jerusalem in December 1917.
The 12th Light Horse Regiment consisted of many officers and soldiers from the Hunter Region.
Family members with connections to “the Charge of Beersheba” and members of the general public are warmly invited to attend our weekend of Polo commemorating the courage of these Light Horsemen, 100 years ago.
The Scone Polo Club is keenly interested in documenting family links with the Scone Polo and “the Charge of Beersheba”.
Peter White
President
Scone Polo Club
peter@belltrees.com
0407 897407
Barry Moule
Media Officer
Scone Polo Club
barrymoule@me.com
0427 776 770