Topic: Militia - LHS - 17/23/18
23rd ALH
23rd Australian (Barossa) Light Horse
1916
Adelaide Cavalry Squadron [1841 - 1844]
Adelaide Mounted Rifles [1844 - 1899]
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
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 Bentley Sievewright Connor, 17 June 1912.
Adjutant
Lieutenant Horace George Viney, Army and Instructional Staff, 1 March 1912, Absent on AIF Service.
Captain Diedrich Heinrich Schmidt, Honorary Major, 18 June 1904.
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.
Supernumerary Officers
Lieutenant Alfred Augustus Scarfe, 1 June 1915.
Lieutenant William Percival Allen Lapthorne, 1 July 1915.
Lieutenant Nathaniel Powell Campbell, 1 January 1916.
Area Officers
Major David Fulton, 1 August 1913, Absent on AIF Service.
Major William John Reid Hutchinson, 1 October 1914, Absent on AIF Service.
Captain Francis Charles Siekmann, Boer War Veteran, 12 October 1908.
Captain Dashwood Charles Connor, 1 May 1915.
Lieutenant Harold Edward Rowell, 16 June 1915.
Machine Gun Section
Adelaide
Lieutenant Walter Andrew Read, 1 July 1915.
"A" Squadron, Adelaide - Kilkenny - Magill
Lieutenant Roland Ellis Jacobs, 16 April 1913.
Lieutenant Clive Bleechmore, 16 February 1914, Absent on AIF Service.
Lieutenant Reginald Valentine Reid, 1 July 1915, Absent on AIF Service.
Lieutenant Alan Ernest Dean, 1 July 1915, Absent on AIF Service.
Lieutenant Ross Wilkinson, 1 July 1915, Absent on AIF Service.
Lieutenant Roy Stirling Fotheringham, 1 July 1915, Absent on AIF Service.
Lieutenant John Patrick Spence Morice, 1 July 1915.
Lieutenant Sydney Hamilton Ayliffe, Boer War Veteran, 1 July 1915, Absent on AIF Service.
Lieutenant Frederic Theodore Bruce, 1 July 1915.
Lieutenant Keith Rogers Scarfe, 16 August 1915.
Lieutenant Keith Wilkinson, 16 August 1915, Absent on AIF Service.
Lieutenant William Sydney Dean, 15 August 1916.
Lieutenant Reginald Frederick Jacobs, 1 June 1916.
"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 Alexander John Cowan, 1 July 1915.
Lieutenant Herbert Russell Oborn, 1 July 1915, Absent on AIF Service.
Lieutenant Hermann Carl Ey, 1 July 1915, Absent on AIF Service.
Lieutenant Alan Koeppen Wendt, 1 July 1915, Absent on AIF Service.
Lieutenant Ernest Marshall Luxmoore, 1 July 1915, Absent on AIF Service.
Lieutenant Edward Laurence Angove, 1 July 1915, Absent on AIF Service.
Lieutenant Harry Formby Moore, 1 July 1915, Absent on AIF Service.
Lieutenant Sydney Arthur Hunn, 1 July 1915, Absent on AIF Service.
Lieutenant Percy Archibald Bell, 16 August 1915.
Lieutenant Charles Angas Wilcox, 16 August 1915, Absent on AIF Service.
Lieutenant William James Whitty, 1 June 1916.
Lieutenant Thomas Clarke Callow, 28 August 1916.
"C" Squadron, Burra - Hamley Bridge - Riverton - Kapunda
Lieutenant Lancelot Ashley Lewis, 1 October 1914, 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 Harold James Copley, 1 July 1915, Absent on AIF Service.
Lieutenant Frank Phillips, 1 July 1915.
Lieutenant James Brown Wilson, 1 July 1915.
Lieutenant Malcolm Stevenson, 1 July 1915, Absent on AIF Service.
Lieutenant George Harvey Nunn, 1 July 1915, Absent on AIF Service.
Lieutenant Walter Finch, 16 April 1916.
Lieutenant Guy McGeorge Harris, 16 April 1916.
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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, 1916
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