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23rd Australian (South Australian Mounted Rifles) Light Horse, December 1912
Topic: Militia - LHS - 17/23/18

23rd ALH

23rd Australian (South Australian Mounted Rifles) Light Horse

December 1912

Adelaide Cavalry Squadron [1841 - 1844]
Adelaide Mounted Rifles [1844 - 1899]

South Australian Mounted Rifles, 1899-1903

17th Australian (South Australian Mounted Rifles) Light Horse Regiment, 1903-1912

23rd (Barossa) Australian Light Horse Regiment, 1912-1919

18th Adelaide Lancers, 1919-1935

18th Light Horse Machine Gun Regiment (Adelaide Lancers), 1935-1942

18th Motor Regiment (Adelaide Lancers), 1942-1943

Equis Armis Virtute - By Horses, arms and Virtue

South Africa 1899 - 1902

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

District

Central South Australia

Brigade

8th Brigade

Headquarters

Adelaide

Honorary Colonel

The Right Honorable Algernon Hawkins Thogond Keith-Falconer Earl of Kintore, PC, GCMG.

Commanding Officer

Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Hancock, 5 October 1908, Tenure of Command from 1 July 1912 to 30 June 1917.

Second in Command

Major Reginald Robert Baldwin, 15 January 1912.

Adjutant

Captain David Fulton, 1 April 1912.

Quartermaster

Captain Diedrich Heinrich Schmidt, Honorary Major, 18 June 1904.

Medical Officer

Captain Henry Arthur Powell, 1 October 1905.

Veterinary Officer

Vacant

Area Officers

Captain Francis Charles Siekmann, Boer War Veteran, 12 October 1908.

Captain David Fulton, 1 April 1912.

Machine Gun Section

Adelaide

Second Lieutenant Edward Theodore Pascoe, 13 March 1911.

"A" Squadron, Adelaide - Magill - Tea Tree Gully - Ashton - Lobethal - Gumeracha - Blumberg

Major Bentley Sievewright Connor, 17 June 1912.

Captain Horace Gilbert Willcox, 23 December 1912.

Second Lieutenant Halcombe Ferrier Brock, 30 August 1909.

Second Lieutenant Roland Ellis Jacobs, 9 Feruary 1910.

Second Lieutenant Clive Bleechmore, 11 March 1912.

"B" Squadron, North Adelaide - Wlakerville - Prospect - Salisbury - Two Wells - Smithfield - Angle Vale - Gawler - Williamstown

Captain Thomas Anglesey Siekmann, 23 December 1912.

Second Lieutenant Algernon Sheppard Lindsay, 28 October 1912.

Second Lieutenant Reginald Valentine Reid, 18 November 1912.

Second Lieutenant William Charles Kelly, 23 December 1912.

"C" Squadron, Burra - Hamley Bridge - Riverton - Kapunda

Second Lieutenant Lancelot Ashley Lewis, 18 November 1912.

Second Lieutenant Arthur Edward James Smyth, 2 December 1912.

Previous: 17th Australian (South Australian Mounted Rifles) Light Horse Regiment, June 1912

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Further Reading:

17th/23rd/18th Australian Light Horse

Militia Light Horse, South Australia

Australian Militia Light Horse

Citation: 23rd Australian (South Australian Mounted Rifles) Light Horse, December 1912

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