Topic: Militia - LHS - 17/23/18
23rd ALH
23rd Australian (Barossa) Light Horse
1915
Adelaide Mounted Rifles [1844 - 1899]
District
Central South Australia
Division
2nd Division
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
Lieutenant Horace George Viney, Army and Instructional Staff, 1 March 1912, Absent on AIF Service.
Quartermaster
Captain Diedrich Heinrich Schmidt, Honorary Major, 18 June 1904.
Medical Officer
Captain Charles Ernest Cameron Wilson, 1 December 1913.
Veterinary Officer
Captain Frederick Murray-Jones, 19 December 1913.
Area Officers
Major David Fulton, 1 August 1913.
Captain Francis Charles Siekmann, Boer War Veteran, 12 October 1908.
Machine Gun Section
Adelaide
Lieutenant Walter Andrew Read, 1 July 1915.
"A" Squadron, Adelaide - Kilkenny - Magill
Major Bentley Sievewright Connor, 17 June 1912.
Captain Horace Gilbert Willcox, 23 December 1912.
Lieutenant Roland Ellis Jacobs, 16 April 1913.
Lieutenant Halcombe Ferrier Brock, 16 February 1914.
Lieutenant Clive Bleechmore, 16 February 1914, Absent on AIF Service.
Lieutenant Algernon Sheppard Lindsay, 16 July 1914.
Lieutenant William Percival Allen Lapthorne, 1 July 1915.
"B" Squadron, Tea Tree Gully - Salisbury - Gawler - Two Wells - Mallala
Captain Thomas Anglesey Siekmann, 23 December 1912, Absent on AIF Service.
Lieutenant Edward Theodore Pascoe, 1 July 1915, Absent on AIF Service.
Lieutenant William Charles Kelly, 1 July 1915, Absent on AIF Service.
Lieutenant George Stafford Hayman, 1 July 1915.
Lieutenant Alexander John Cowan, 1 July 1915.
Lieutenant Herbert Russell Oborn, 1 July 1915.
"C" Squadron, Burra - Hamley Bridge - Riverton - Kapunda
Lieutenant Lancelot Ashley Lewis, 1 July 1915, Absent on AIF Service.
Lieutenant Edmund Ross James, 1 July 1915, Absent on AIF Service.
Lieutenant Oswald Hatchard Castine, 1 July 1915.
Lieutenant John Cave Killicoat, Boer War Veteran, 1 July 1915.
Lieutenant Frank Phillips, 1 July 1915.
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Further Reading:
17th/23rd/18th Australian Light Horse
Militia Light Horse, South Australia
Australian Militia Light Horse
Citation: 23rd Australian (Barossa) Light Horse, 1915