Topic: Militia - LHN - 28
28th ALH
28th Australian (Illawarra) Light Horse
1918
New South Wales Lancers and New South Wales Mounted Rifles [1885 - 1903]
1st Australian Light Horse and 2nd Australian Light Horse [1903 - 1912]
28th (Illawarra) Australian Light Horse [1912 - 1921]
21st (Illawarra) Australian Light Horse [1921 - 1929]
1/21st Australian Light Horse [1929 - 1936]
1st Light Horse Machine Gun Regiment, Royal New South Wales Lancers [1936 - 1939]
1st Machine Gun Regiment, Royal New South Wales Lancers [1939 - 1941]
1st Motor Regiment, Royal New South Wales Lancers [1941 - 1942]
1st Australian Armoured Regiment, AIF, Royal New South Wales Lancers [1942 - 1942]
Australian Armoured Corps, AIF, Royal New South Wales Lancers [1942 - 1948]
1st Armoured Regiment, Royal New South Wales Lancers [1948 - 1949]
1st Royal New South Wales Lancers [1949 - 1952]
1/15 Royal New South Wales Lancers [1952 - ]
Royal New South Wales Lancers Badge
Allied with: King Edward's Horse (The King's Overseas Dominions Regiment).
District
South Coast New South Wales
Brigade
Vacant
Headquarters
West Kogarah
Honorary Colonel
Vacant
Commanding Officer
Captain Colin Dunmore Fuller, 21 January 1908, Tenure of Command from 1 July 1912 to 30 June 1917, Absent on AIF Service.
Major Patrick Connolly, 1 August 1916, Temporary Commanding Officer from 2 March 1915.
Adjutant
Lieutenant Hubert Leslie Primrose, 15 October 1915.
Quartermaster
Captain William Melanchthon Bennetts, 12 July 1915.
Medical Officer
Captain Karl Randolph Wilhelm Georgs, 31 January 1911.
Veterinary Officer
Vacant.
"A" Squadron, Albion Park - Jamberoo - Unanderra
Captain John Augustine Raftery, 1 March 1918.
Lieutenant Charles Ziems, 1 July 1915, Absent on AIF Service.
Lieutenant Theodore James Grey, 1 July 1915.
Lieutenant Frederick Brownlee, Boer War Veteran, 1 July 1915.
Lieutenant Montague Ambrose Brown, 1 July 1915, Absent on AIF Service.
Lieutenant Henry Ardagh Tomkins, 14 February 1916.
"B" Squadron, Canterbury - Kogarah
Major Sydney James Shillington, 1 December 1914, Absent on AIF Service.
Captain Phillip Arthur Chambers, 16 January 1913, Absent on AIF Service.
Captain Stephen Norman McLean, 1 July 1915, Absent on AIF Service.
Lieutenant Harald William Baker, 1 July 1915, Absent on AIF Service.
Lieutenant Clarence James Lyle West, 1 January 1916, Absent on AIF Service.
Lieutenant Harold Ireland Johnson, 16 December 1914.
Lieutenant Albert Edward Jackson, 1 June 1916.
Lieutenant William Victor Russell, 1 June 1916.
Lieutenant William John Adams, 1 June 1916.
"C" Squadron, Milton - Berry
Major Patrick Connolly, 1 August 1916, Temporary Commanding Officer from 2 March 1915.
Lieutenant Rupert Frederick Cork, 1 July 1915.
Lieutenant John Maloney, 1 August 1915.
Lieutenant Edward Spencer Hordern, 1 July 1915, Absent on AIF Service.
Lieutenant Robert Ernest McClelland, 14 February 1916.
Lieutenant Nicholas Dillon Healy, 1 September 1918.
"D" Squadron, Moss Vale - Robertson
Lieutenant Leslie James Brooker, 1 July 1915.
Lieutenant Arthur John Scott Lindsay, 28 August 1916.
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Further Reading:
28th Australian (Illawarra) Light Horse
Militia Light Horse, New South Wales
Australian Militia Light Horse
Citation: 28th Australian (Illawarra) Light Horse, 1918
