Topic: Militia - LHS - 17/23/18
23rd ALH
23rd Australian (Barossa) Light Horse
1918
Adelaide Cavalry Squadron [1841 - 1844]
Adelaide Mounted Rifles [1844 - 1899]
Adelaide Mounted Rifles [1844 - 1899]
South Australian Mounted Rifles, 1899-1903
17th Australian (South Australian Mounted Rifles) Light Horse Regiment, 1903-1912
23rd (Barossa) Australian Light Horse Regiment, 1912-1919
18th Adelaide Lancers, 1919-1935
18th Light Horse Machine Gun Regiment (Adelaide Lancers), 1935-1942
18th Motor Regiment (Adelaide Lancers), 1942-1943
Equis Armis Virtute - By Horses, arms and Virtue
District
Central South Australia
Division
2nd Division
Brigade
8th Brigade
Headquarters
Adelaide
Honorary Colonel
The Right Honorable Algernon Hawkins Thogond Keith-Falconer Earl of Kintore, PC, GCMG.Commanding Officer
Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Hancock, 5 October 1908, Tenure of Command from 1 July 1912 to 30 June 1917.
Second in Command
Major Bentley Sievewright Connor, 17 June 1912.
Adjutant
Lieutenant Horace George Viney, Army and Instructional Staff, 1 March 1912, Absent on AIF Service.
Honorary Lieutenant Edwin Terence Martin, Boer War Veteran, 1 August 1917.
Quartermaster
Captain Diedrich Heinrich Schmidt, Honorary Major, 18 June 1904.
Medical Officer
Captain Charles Ernest Cameron Wilson, 1 December 1913.
Veterinary Officer
Captain Frederick Murray-Jones, 19 December 1913, Absent on AIF Service.
Supernumerary Officers
Major William John Reid Hutchinson, 1 October 1914, Absent on AIF Service.
Lieutenant Alfred Augustus Scarfe, [Temporary Orderly Officer, 8th Light Horse Brigade], 1 June 1915.
Lieutenant William Percival Allen Lapthorne, Absent on AIF Service, 1 July 1915.
Area Officers
Major David Fulton, 1 August 1913, Absent on AIF Service.
Captain Dashwood Charles Connor, 1 May 1915.
Lieutenant Harold Edward Rowell, Absent on AIF Service, 16 June 1915.
Machine Gun Section
Adelaide
Lieutenant Walter Andrew Read, 1 July 1915.
"A" Squadron, Adelaide - Kilkenny - Magill
Lieutenant Roland Ellis Jacobs, 16 April 1913.
Lieutenant Clive Bleechmore, 16 February 1914, Absent on AIF Service.
Lieutenant Reginald Valentine Reid, 1 July 1915, Absent on AIF Service.
Lieutenant Alan Ernest Dean, 1 July 1915, Absent on AIF Service.
Lieutenant Ross Wilkinson, 1 July 1915, Absent on AIF Service.
Lieutenant Roy Stirling Fotheringham, 1 July 1915, Absent on AIF Service.
Lieutenant John Patrick Spence Morice, 1 July 1915.
Lieutenant Sydney Hamilton Ayliffe, Boer War Veteran, 1 July 1915, Absent on AIF Service.
Lieutenant Frederic Theodore Bruce, 1 July 1915.
Lieutenant Keith Wilkinson, 16 August 1915, Absent on AIF Service.
Lieutenant William Sydney Dean, 15 August 1916.
"B" Squadron, Tea Tree Gully - Salisbury - Gawler - Two Wells - Mallala
Captain Francis Charles Siekmann, Boer War Veteran, 12 October 1908.
NathanielCaptain Thomas Anglesey Brinkworth (formerly Siekmann) , 23 December 1912, Absent on AIF Service.
Lieutenant Edward Theodore Pascoe, 1 July 1915, Absent on AIF Service.
Lieutenant Alexander John Cowan, 1 July 1915.
Lieutenant Herbert Russell Oborn, 1 July 1915, Absent on AIF Service.
Lieutenant Hermann Carl Ey, 1 July 1915, Absent on AIF Service.
Lieutenant Alan Koeppen Wendt, 1 July 1915, Absent on AIF Service.
Lieutenant Ernest Marshall Luxmoore, 1 July 1915, Absent on AIF Service.
Lieutenant Edward Laurence Angove, 1 July 1915, Absent on AIF Service.
Lieutenant Harry Formby Moore, 1 July 1915, Absent on AIF Service.
Lieutenant George Harvey Nunn, 1 July 1915, Absent on AIF Service.
Lieutenant Sydney Arthur Hunn, Honorary Captain, MC, 1 July 1915, Absent on AIF Service.
Lieutenant Percy Archibald Bell, 16 August 1915.
Lieutenant Charles Angas Wilcox, 16 August 1915, Absent on AIF Service.
Lieutenant Nathaniel Powell Campbell, Honorary Captain, 1 January 1916.
Lieutenant William James Whitty, 1 June 1916.
Lieutenant Thomas Clarke Callow, 28 August 1916.
Lieutenant William Allan Phillis, 15 September 1916.
"C" Squadron, Burra - Hamley Bridge - Riverton - Kapunda
Lieutenant Lancelot Ashley Lewis, Honorary Major, 1 October 1914, Absent on AIF Service.
Lieutenant Edmund Ross James, 1 July 1915, Absent on AIF Service.
Lieutenant Oswald Hatchard Castine, 1 July 1915.
Lieutenant John Cave Killicoat, Boer War Veteran, 1 July 1915.
Lieutenant Harold James Copley, 1 July 1915, Absent on AIF Service.
Lieutenant Frank Phillips, 1 July 1915.
Lieutenant James Brown Wilson, 1 July 1915.
Lieutenant Malcolm Stevenson, 1 July 1915, Absent on AIF Service.
Lieutenant Walter Finch, 16 April 1916.
Lieutenant Guy McGeorge Harris, 16 April 1916, Absent on AIF Service.
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Further Reading:
17th/23rd/18th Australian Light Horse
Militia Light Horse, South Australia
Australian Militia Light Horse
Citation: 23rd Australian (Barossa) Light Horse, 1918
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Updated: Friday, 4 June 2010 5:06 PM EADT
