Topic: Militia - LHV - 8/16/8
8th ALH
8th (Victorian Mounted Rifles) Australian Light Horse
1910
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
District
North Eastern VictoriaBrigade
3rd Northern Victoria BrigadeHeadquarters
BenallaHonorary Colonel
Vacant.Commanding Officer
Major JI Martin.Adjutant
Captain JE Sergeant, 3 March 1908, South African War Veteran.Quartermaster
Honorary Lieutenant SE Simpson, 11 October 1907.Medical Officer
Captain JH Patterson, 1 October 1905.Veterinary Officer
Lieutenant AC Wilson.
Machine Gun Section
Benalla
Vacant.
1st Euroa - Violet Town - Longwood Squadron
Captain RD Crocker, 1 April 1905.
Captain LC Maygar, VC, 9 May 1905, South African War Veteran.
Lieutenant GE Lydiard, 1 September 1905.
Lieutenant FT Crocker, 1 September 1905.
Second Lieutenant G Fay, 17 March 1908.
2nd Benalla - Thoona Squadron
Major JI Martin, 14 February 1906.
Lieutenant J Standish.
Second Lieutenant CE Clements, 10 September 1906, South African War Veteran.
Second Lieutenant A Mitchell, 1 July 1908.
Second Lieutenant JG Moylan, 23 December 1909.
3rd Wangaratta - Rutherglen - Moyhu Squadron
Captain TG Clarke, 28 August 1907.
Second Lieutenant WL Pinkerton, 11 January 1909.
4th Beechworth - Myrtleford Squadron
Captain RB Barnes, 13 August 1907.
Lieutenant HJ Shannon, 1 September 1905.
Lieutenant A McG McLaurin, 21 September 1908.
Second Lieutenant AE Deverell, 1 July 1908.
Second Lieutenant AH Freeman, 22 March 1909.
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Further Reading:
8th/16th/8th Australian Light Horse
Victoria Militia - Light Horse
Australian Militia Light Horse
Citation: 8th (Victorian Mounted Rifles) Australian Light Horse, 1910