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This special edition individually numbered Third Pattern Rising Sun Lapel Pin commemorates and honours General Sir Henry George Chauvel and Sandy, the only horse known to return to Australia from the 136,000 walers sent overseas during the Great War.
Born on 16 April 1865, Chauvel was commissioned into the Upper Clarence Light Horse in 1886. By the time of the Boer War he was a captain in the Queensland permanent forces and commanded one of the two companies of Queensland Mounted Infantry sent to South Africa. After the war he played an important role in training Australia’s Light Horse. He joined the 1st Light Horse Brigade in December 1914 and served at Gallipoli, where he later took command of the 1st Division. In 1917 he became the first Australian to permanently command a corps, leading the Desert Mounted Corps in the Sinai and Palestine campaign, including the capture of Beersheba. After the war he returned to Australia, became Inspector General, later Chief of the General Staff, and in November 1929 became the first Australian promoted to the rank of general. During WWII he returned to service as Inspector-in-Chief of the Volunteer Defence Corps, holding the post until his death on 4 March 1945.
Sandy was the favourite horse of Major General Sir William Bridges. He was among the horses sent for the Gallipoli campaign, although very few were landed at Anzac Cove and the horses were sent back to Alexandria. After Bridges died of wounds received at Gallipoli, Sandy came into the care of Captain Leslie Whitfield of the Australian Army Veterinary Corps. Sandy later went with Whitfield to France. In 1917, Minister for Defence Senator George Pearce requested that Sandy be returned to Australia. After quarantine at the Remount Depot at Swaythling in England, Sandy sailed from Liverpool and arrived in Melbourne in November 1918. He spent his final years at the Central Remount Depot at Maribyrnong, where he died in 1923.
Together, Chauvel and Sandy remain enduring symbols of leadership, loyalty and service.
First introduced in 1902, the Rising Sun remains one of the most recognised emblems of the Australian soldier. The Third Pattern, developed in 1903–04, was worn with little alteration until after WWSPECIFICATIONS:
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