“There were seventeen different nationalities who took part in the campaign, and among the most important were these troops from India. As you all know it was largely a cavalry campaign. The mounted troops were of three different types. First came these Anzacs, men born and bred in the saddle in the plains of Australasia. Wonderful fighters, and every man in individualist. The second type consisted of the British Mounted Yeomanry than whom there are no finer cavalrymen in the world. The third type was made up of the Indian Lancers, and during the last half of the campaign fifty per cent of the troops fighting in the Holy Land came from India.”

-Lowell Thomas
“With Allenby in Palestine” (1919)