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World War 1, Australia, Western Australia, 1636 McWHIRTER, 10 Light Horse
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Photograph of 1636 Corporal Clifford John McWhirter, MM of bakers Hill,12th Reinforcements, enlisted 26 August 1915, died of wounds, 6 October 1918 of wounds received at the capture of Jenin
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cwa-org-32-55-463
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The capture of Jenin occurred on 20 September 1918, during the Battle of Sharon which together with the Battle of Nablus formed the set piece Battle of Megiddo fought between 19 and 25 September 1918. During the cavalry phase of the Battle of Sharon carried out by the Desert Mounted Corps, the 3rd Light Horse Brigade, Australian Mounted Division attacked and captured the town of Jenin located on the southern edge of the Esdraelon Plain (also known as the Jezreel Valley and the plain of Armageddon) 80 km behind the front line in the Judean Hills. The Australian light horse captured about 2,000 prisoners, the main supply base and the ordnance depot of the Seventh and the Eighth Armies and cut the main road from Nablus A further 6,000 Ottoman Empire and German Empire prisoners, were subsequently captured as they attempted to retreat away from the Judean Hills.
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31.929854551946, 34.883707710434
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- World War 1, Middle East Palestine Ramleh, 1918 (3.26km away)
- World War 2, Middle East, 1942 (17.45km away)
- World War 2, Middle East, 1942 (18.11km away)
- World War 1, Middle East Palestine Jaffa, 1918 (18.38km away)
- World War 1, Middle East, Palestine, Jaffa, Light Horse, 1917 (18.38km away)
- World War 2, Middle East Israel Tel Aviv, SUTTON, Royal Australian Engineers, 1942 (18.49km away)
- World War 1, South-West Asia, Palestine (now Israel), Australian Flying Corps, 1917 (18.58km away)
- World War 1, South-West Asia, Palestine, Jaffa, Mahmoudiya Mosque, 10 Light Horse. 1917 (18.65km away)
- World War 2, Middle East Israel Jaffa, 1941 (18.69km away)
- World War 2, Middle East, Palestine, Tel Aviv, Australian Army Ordnance Corps, 1942 (20.16km away)
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