Topic: Militia - LHN - 6/5/12
6th ALH
6th Australian (Australian Horse) Light Horse
December 1903
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 - ]
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History:
Below is a brief historical outline from RK Peacock, Evolution of Australian Light Horse Regiments 1841-1935, Unpublished MSS, c.1936, p. 7.
The 1st Australian Horse was a volunteer unit raised in New South Wales in 1897. It was organised in Squadrons. "A" Squadron being recruited from Murrumburrah, Cootamundra and Gundagai; "B" Goulburn, Braidwood, Araluen, Michelago, Bredlbo and Bungendore; "C" : Squadron Mudgee and Rylston; "D" Squadron from Scone, Belltrees and Muswellbrook; "E" Squadron from Tamworth, and Armidale districts. The 1st Australian Horse carried its title until 1903.On the Federal re-organization of 1903 it was broken up, resulting in "A" and "B" Squadrons, together with the No. 3 Bega Squadron of the New South Wales Mounted Rifles and "K" Company 2nd N. S.W. Infantry from Cooma were formed into a Mounted Regiment and styled 3rd Australian Light Horse (Australian Horse ). "C" Squadron passed over the 2nd A.L.H. Regiment; "D" and "E" Squadrons forming the nucleus of the 6th A.L.H. Regiment.
"G" Company, 4th Infantry Regiment, together with "D" and "E" Squadrons, 1st Australian Horse, to be formed into the 6th Australian Light Horse Regiment (Australian Horse).
[The 1903 pattern uniform with the full dress additions of white shoulder pads and aiguillettes, a scarlet pastron with silver buttons and badges, black rooster feathers in his hat and a white cloth girdle with three buckles. From: AWM P01796.001.]
District
Northern New South Wales - Upper Hunter and Liverpool Plains
Brigade
2nd Brigade, Northern New South Wales
Headquarters
Honorary ColonelArmidale
The Right Honorable William Lygon Earl Beauchamp, KCMG.
Commanding Officer
Lieutenant Colonel Harry Beauchamp Lassetter, CB, Honorary Colonel, Boer War Veteran, 1 July 1903.
Adjutant
Captain William Frank Everett, 1 July 1903.
Quartermaster
Honorary Second Lieutenant Sydney Plessos Crummer, 1 July 1903.
Medical Officer
Lieutenant Herbert Ernest Lee, 25 March 1898.
Veterinary Officer
Vacant
1st Muswellbrook - Scone - Belltrees Squadron
Captain Roger Hope Edward Upton, 1 January 1901.
Lieutenant Edward Reginald White, 1 July 1903.
Second Lieutenant Francis Henry Thrift, 1 July 1903.
2nd Armidale Squadron
Captain William Frank Everett, 1 July 1903.
Lieutenant Charles Jeffries Britten, Juniour, 1 July 1903.
3rd Gunnedah Squadron
Captain Thomas Leslie Willsallen, 1 January 1903.
Second Lieutenant John Thomas Sheehan, 1 July 1903.
4th Tamworth Squadron
Lieutenant Henry Welch Curtis, 1 July 1903.
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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: 6th (Australian Horse) Australian Light Horse Regiment, 1903
