The grave of Lt Col Hubert JI Harris VD, Commanding Officer of the 5th Light Horse Regiment. Harris served in the Boer War with the Queensland Mounted Infantry and then the militia, being promoted to Lt Col in 1911. He took the 5th Light horse to Gallipoli in mid May 1915 and was killed in action on the evening of 31 July 1915, aged 44.He was observing the attack being made by the 3rd Infantry Brigade on Turkish positions in front of Tasmania Post, from a machine gun observation post in Leane's Trench on Harris Ridge, when responding Turkish shelling fell about the position and a bullet entered through the loophole hitting him in the neck, resulting in his death within minutes. He was buried in Shell Green Cemetery the following evening.
