Topic: Militia - LHS - 17/23/18
18th (AL)LHR
18th Adelaide Lancers Light Horse Regiment
1919
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
For God, King and Country
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, VD, 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 RF Jephcott, AIF Veteran, 23 June 1919.
Quartermaster
Captain Diedrich Heinrich Schmidt, Honorary Major, 18 June 1904.
Lieutenant RF Jephcott, AIF Veteran, 23 June 1919.
Medical Officer
Captain Charles Ernest Cameron Wilson, 1 December 1913.
Veterinary Officer
Captain Frederick Murray-Jones, 19 December 1913, Absent on AIF Service.
Supernumerary Officers
Lieutenant Alfred Augustus Scarfe, [Temporary Orderly Officer, 8th Light Horse Brigade], 1 June 1915.
Lieutenant William Percival Allen Lapthorne, Absent on AIF Service, 1 July 1915.
Area Officers
Major David Fulton, 1 August 1913, CBE, Absent on AIF Service.
Captain Dashwood Charles Connor, 1 May 1915.
Lieutenant Harold Edward Rowell, Absent on AIF Service, 16 June 1915.
Lieutenant RF Jephcott, AIF Veteran, 23 June 1919.
Machine Gun Section
Adelaide
Lieutenant Walter Andrew Read, 1 July 1915.
"A" Squadron, Adelaide - Kilkenny - Magill
Major William John Reid Hutchinson, 1 October 1914, Absent on AIF Service.
Captain Clive Bleechmore, 29 September 1918, Absent on AIF Service.
Lieutenant Roland Ellis Jacobs, 16 April 1913.
Lieutenant Reginald Valentine Reid, 1 July 1915, Absent on AIF Service.
Lieutenant Ross Wilkinson, 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 Keith Wilkinson, 16 August 1915, Absent on AIF Service.
Lieutenant William Sydney Dean, 15 August 1916.
Lieutenant Stanley Hinde Garvie, 16 September 1918.
"B" Squadron, Tea Tree Gully - Salisbury - Gawler - Tweedvale
Captain Francis Charles Siekmann, Boer War Veteran, 12 October 1908.
Captain Thomas Anglesey Brinkworth (formerly Siekmann) , 23 December 1912, Absent on AIF Service.
Lieutenant Edward Theodore Pascoe, 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, Honorary Captain, MBE, 1 July 1915, Absent on AIF Service.
Lieutenant George Harvey Nunn, 1 July 1915, Absent on AIF Service.
Lieutenant Sydney Arthur Hunn, Honorary Captain, CBE, MC, 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 Nathaniel Powell Campbell, Honorary Captain, 1 January 1916.
Lieutenant William James Whitty, 1 June 1916.
Lieutenant Thomas Clarke Callow, 28 August 1916.
Lieutenant Garnet Crocombe Rimes, 20 September 1918.
"C" Squadron, Burra - Hamley Bridge - Riverton - Kapunda
Lieutenant Edmund Ross James, 1 July 1915, Absent on AIF Service.
Lieutenant John Cave Killicoat, Boer War Veteran, 1 July 1915.
Lieutenant Harold James Copley, Honorary Major, 1 July 1915, Absent on AIF Service.
Lieutenant James Brown Wilson, 1 July 1915.
Lieutenant Malcolm Stevenson, 1 July 1915, Absent on AIF Service.
Lieutenant Walter Finch, 16 April 1916.
Lieutenant Guy McGeorge Harris, 16 April 1916, Absent on AIF Service.
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Further Reading:
17th/23rd/18th Australian Light Horse
Militia Light Horse, South Australia
Australian Militia Light Horse
Citation: 18th Adelaide Lancers Light Horse Regiment, 1919
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Updated: Friday, 4 June 2010 5:08 PM EADT
