Five Militia officers of the Victorian Mounted Rifles photographed in Melbourne, c. 1914. Major Thomas Harold Redford from Warrnambool; Lieutenant (Lt) Edward Ellis Henty from Hamilton; and Lt Eliot Gratton Wilson from Warrnambool. Seated, from left to right: Lt Robert Ernest Baker from Larpent and Lt Keith Allan Borthwick from Armadale. They all served at Gallipoli as officers with B Squadron, 8th Australian Light Horse Regiment. Only Robert Baker survived the charge at the Nek by the 8th and 10th Light Horse Regiments on 7 August 1915. Major Leslie Hore, who charged that morning with the 8th Light Horse, wrote: 'Truly we have been through the Valley of the Shadow of Death as our regiment has been cut to pieces and all our officers killed or wounded except two.' AWM P00265.001
