The "'Australian Cycling Corps "'was formed in Egypt in 1916 as part of the Western Front in France and Belgium during World War I . They were used mainly as despatch riders, while also conducting reconnaissance and patrolling.
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With the outbreak of the war in mid-1914, three directors of Burney and Blackburne Ltd volunteered as despatch riders, these were Cecil Burney, Alec Burney and C . Q . Roberts ( also Q . A . Roberts his brother ).
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The former are from the middle and upper classes whose lifestyle differs greatly from low-cost flat residents made up of a mixture of clerical employees, despatch riders, taxi and bus drivers, factory workers, construction workers in addition to hawkers and petty traders.
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As at May that year, the Legion was organised into a first aid and home nursing auxiliary, a transport division ( which included horse and mechanised transport units ) a land workers'section, a communication unit, despatch riders, a cooking unit and the air wing section.
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The two co-founders, P . M . Trapper Cane and J . S . Y . Doc Lebrun adopted the name Canadian Army Veteran ( CAV ) and a WWII crest of a despatch rider as their crest, which had been used in a World War II recruiting poster in Canada.
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"' Bessie Stringfield "'( 1911 February 1993 ), nicknamed " The Motorcycle Queen of Miami ", was the first African-American woman to ride across the United States solo, and during World War II she served as one of the few motorcycle despatch riders for the United States military.
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In May 1935, T . E . Lawrence ( known as Lawrence of Arabia ) had a crash on a Brough Superior SS100 on a narrow road near his cottage near Hugh Cairns, a neurosurgeon, who after Lawrence's death began a long study of what he saw as the unnecessary loss of life by motorcycle despatch riders through head injuries.
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Ball, along with another driver, Private William Lewis, and ambulance orderly Private Alf Woodman, and the medical officer, Captain John Park, all traveling in the same vehicle, never reached " Hill 80 "; and, although despatch riders were sent out to locate the men, they could not be found, and all four were reported " missing ", with the hope that they were being held as prisoners of war.
