Topic: Militia - LHN - 6/5/12
5th ALH
5th Australian (New England) Light Horse
1914
Australian Horse [1897 - 1903]
6th Australian (Australian Horse) Light Horse [1903 - 1906]
6th Australian (New England Light Horse) Light Horse [1907 - 1912]
5th Australian (New England Light Horse) Light Horse Regiment [1912 - 1918]
12th Australian (New England Light Horse) Light Horse Regiment [1919 - 1942]
12th (New England Light Horse) Motor Regiment [1942 - 1942]
12th (New England Light Horse) Armoured Car Regiment [1942 - 1943]
12th/16th (Hunter River Lancers) Armoured Car Regiment [1948 - ]
Virtutis Fortuna Comes - Fortune is the Companion of Valour
District
New England
Brigade
2nd Brigade
Headquarters
Armidale.
Honorary Colonel
The Right Honorable William Lygon Earl Beauchamp, KCMG.
Commanding Officer
Major Percy Phipps Abbott, 22 June 1908, Tenure of command from 8 July 1913 to 7 July 1918.
Adjutant
Second Lieutenant Richard Dudly Holman, Army and Instructional Staff, 1 November 1913.
Quartermaster
Honorary Lieutenant Herbert James Godfrey, 1 February 1912.
Medical Officer
Captain Arthur Joseph Mackenzie, 5 March 1912.
Area Officer
Captain Charles George Gordon, 3 August 1908.
Machine Gun Section
Armidale
Lieutenant Robert Furnifull Craigie, 21 November 1909.
"A" Squadron, Tenterfleld - Glen Innes - Guyra.
Captain Frederick Norris Lowther-Crofton, 2 August 1908.
Captain Harold Fletcher White, 16 April 1914.
Lieutenant James Frederick White, 1 July 1909.
Lieutenant Frithiof Valdemar Wikner, 1 July 1910.
Second Lieutenant Michael Frederick Bruxner, 11 September 1911.
Second Lieutenant Richard Vaughan Simpson, 9 December 1912.
"B" Squadron, Tamworth - Armidale - Manilla.
Captain Thomas Norman Johnstone, 3 August 1908.
Captain John Lorimer Gibson Johnstone, 28 June 1912.
Lieutenant Linden Howard Russell Higinbotham, 1 July 1910.
Second Lieutenant George Thomas Sims, 31 March 1913.
Second Lieutenant Frank Augustus Chaffey, 31 March 1913.
"C" Squadron, Inverell - Moree - Narrabri.
Second Lieutenant Walter Blomfield Brown, 7 July 1913.
Second Lieutenant Paul Meziere de Lepervanche, 1 February 1914.
Second Lieutenant Kenneth Powell Stutchbury, 16 May 1914.
Second Lieutenant Norman Scott MacMillan, 1 June 1914.
Second Lieutenant George Archilles Smith, 1 June 1914.
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Further Reading:
6th/5th/12th Australian (New England) Light Horse
Militia Light Horse, New South Wales
Australian Militia Light Horse
Citation: 5th Australian (New England) Light Horse Regiment, 1914
