page_title: Mundoolun, Queensland
section_title: Artillery and light horse
hierarchical_section_title: Mundoolun, Queensland / History / Artillery and light horse
caption_attribution_description: English: The soldiers were taking part in maneuvers in the Mundoolun and Tamborine area near the Albert River. (Description supplied with photograph.) A unit of the Light Horse mounted infantry on exercises in south-east Queensland, Australia.
context_page_description: Mundoolun is a rural locality in the City of Logan, Queensland, Australia. In the 2016 census, Mundoolun had a population of 1,551 people.
  The locality was one of the first pastoral runs in the Logan/Albert River catchment.
context_section_description: As early as 1901, the year Australia became federated, the Mundoolun area was used for military exercises. In March that year the Brisbane Courier newspaper contained the notice, "the Field Artillery Section, Q.R.R.A.A. (Queensland Regiment Royal Australian Artillery), will proceed to camp at Mundoolun, by road, on the 25th instant, for the purpose of carrying out artillery practice". The notice mentions Major Chauvel in command of the headquarters and various units of the Q.M.I. (Queensland Mounted Infantry).
  These military exercises were regularly conducted in the area prior to the First World War. In 1913 a Brisbane Courier report gave details of the camp, then named Tambourine  [sic] Camp, describing its location, "The site of the camp is practically the same as in former years, namely, on a slope overlooking the Albert River and Mundoolun Homestead,". The report notes the suitability of the site due to the quality of water from the Albert River at Mundoolun for drinking, washing, and swimming.
  One member of the Collins family, Douglas Martin Fraser (1888–1968), served with the 5th Light Horse Regiment in Palestine during 1918. Fraser had married Marion Dorothea Jane, daughter of Robert Collins, in 1915 and it was on the Collins's property at Mundoolun where their first home was built.
caption: Light-horsemen on parade in an army camp near Mundoolun, 1909
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