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Saturday, 16 October 2004

8th (Victorian Mounted Rifles) Australian Light Horse, December 1903
Topic: Militia - LHV - 8/16/8

8th ALH

8th (Victorian Mounted Rifles) Australian Light Horse

December 1903

Victorian Mounted Rifles [1885 - 1903]
8th (Victorian Mounted Rifles) Australian Light Horse [1903 - 1912]
16th (Indi) Australian Light Horse [1912 - 1918]
8th (Indi) Australian Light Horse [1919 - 1941
8th Indi Light Horse Recce Battalion [1942 - 1943]
8th Australian Cavalry Regiment [1943 - 1944]
8th/13th (Victorian Mounted Rifles) Armoured Regiment [1948 - 1960]
8th/13th Victorian Mounted Rifles [1960 - ]

Timeo nec sperno - Neither Fearing nor Despising

1903 Reorganisation, Victoria

The Euroa, Longwood, Violet Town, Benalla, Thoona, Wangaratta, Rutherglen, and Beechworth Detachments of Victorian Mounted Rifles to be formed into the 8th Australian Light Horse Regiment (Victorian Mounted Rifles).

District

North Eastern Victoria

Brigade

3rd Northern Victoria Brigade

Headquarters

Euroa

Honorary Colonel

Vacant.

Commanding Officer

Lieutenant Colonel WB Pleasents.

Adjutant

Lieutenant LC Maygar, VC.

Quartermaster

Vacant.

Medical Officer

Lieutenant CW Günst

Veterinary Officer

Vacant.

1st Euroa Squadron

Lieutenant RD Crocker

2nd Benalla - Thoona Squadron

Captain JL Martin

Lieutenant D Martin

Lieutenant J Standish

3rd Wangaratta Squadron

Captain CJ Ahern

Lieutenant E Slee

4th Rutherglen - Beechworth Squadron

Lieutenant RB Barnes

Lieutenant A Prentice

Lieutenant HED Kelly

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