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Monday, 4 October 2004

29th (Port Phillip) Australian Light Horse, 1914
Topic: Militia - LHV - 29

29th ALH

29th (Port Phillip) Australian Light Horse

1914

Victorian Mounted Rifles [1885 - 1903]
10th and 11th (Victorian Mounted Rifles) Australian Light Horse [1903 - 1912]
29th (Port Phillip) Australian Light Horse [1912 - 1929]

Prest D'Accomplir - Ready to Act

South Africa 1899 - 1902

Allied with: King Edward's Horse (The King's Overseas Dominions Regiment).

District

Melbourne

Brigade

7th Light Horse Brigade

Headquarters

South Melbourne

Honorary Colonel

Vacant.

Commanding Officer

Major Charles Edward Merrett, VD, Tenure of command 1 July 1912 to 30 June 1917.

Adjutant

Captain Stephen John Wright Armstrong.

Quartermaster

Honorary Lieutenant Alexander Charles Michaelson, 12 August 1912.

Medical Officer

Lieutenant Colonel The Honorable CC Salmon.

Veterinary Officer

Vacant.

Signallers

Melbourne and Geelong

Vacant.

"A" Squadron, Melbourne - Kew - Caulfield - Box Hill

Captain Ronald John Livingstone Hildyard, 1 February 1913

Second Lieutenant Lieutenant Harold Michael Horan, 1 July 1913

Second Lieutenant Henry Osborne Vary, 1 July 1913

"B" Squadron, Essendon - Bacchus Marsh - Melton - Northcote

Captain Charles William Symons

Second Lieutenant Hector Norman Milne

Second Lieutenant Thomas Spencer Howard

Second Lieutenant Packington Joseph Vallence, 30 April 1913

Second Lieutenant Leonard Farrell, 16 June 1913

Second Lieutenant David Gibson, 1 July 1913

Second Lieutenant Benjamin Ernest Aloys Kerr, 1 July 1913

"C" Squadron, Geelong - Drysdale - Werribee

Captain Arthur Vivian Deeble

Second Lieutenant Columbus Leigh Price

Second Lieutenant Albert Naples Anderson

Second Lieutenant Joseph Terrell Crowl

Second Lieutenant George James Sandford, 16 May 1913.

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