My family is planning to sponsor a race next year at the Alexandra Picnic races in honour of "Iniskillen"(also spelt "Inneskillen"). Iniskillen was my grandfather's charger that he rode all through the dessert campaigns during the first world war.
I am trying to track his genealogy - I have several photos of him marked "Grandson of Carbine". So far I have managed to track the progeny of Carbine but the next generation is proving difficult. My guess is that he was born in Australia, probably around 1910, possibly provided to my grandfather by the Army (9th Light Horse).
Iniskillen never returned to Australia. All the light horses were destroyed at the end of the war. This was the hardest job my Grandfather ever had to do.
Grandson of Carbine.
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