Michael Shanahan (Australian Army officer)

Michael "Mick" Shanahan DSO (30 March 1870 – 1964) was a soldier with the Australian 2nd Light Horse Brigade during the First World War, remembered for heroic rescues during the Battle of Romani.

He was promoted Captain in February and Major on 17 June 1916, several times wounded in action, the second requiring hospitalisation at Cairo where, on 17 August 1916, his left leg was amputated above the knee.

He was wounded"[10] On 29 January 1896 Michael Shanahan married Charlotte Dunstan;[11] they adopted Charles Wieneke Schrimph[9] or Schrimpf, about whom nothing has been found, as a son.

Two were hoisted onto his horse, "Bill the Bastard", while the others jogged along on either side, each holding a stirrup, and proceeded back to camp through no man's land.

Perry has "the Bastard" carrying not three men but five, the inspiration for Carl Valerius' monument on the Burley Griffin Way at Murrumburrah, opposite the Light Horse Memorial Park.