Topic: Militia - LHV - 19/17
17th ALH
17th Australian (Victorian Mounted Rifles) Light Horse
December 1912
Royal Volunteer Cavalry Regiment [1862 - 1863]
Prince of Wales Regiment of Light Horse (Hussars) [1863-1874]
Sandhurst Cavalry Troop [1884 - 1891]
Victorian Mounted Rifles [1885 - 1903]
9th Australian (Victorian Mounted Rifles) Light Horse [1903 - 1910]
19th Australian (Victorian Mounted Rifles) Light Horse [1911 - 1912]
17th Australian (Campaspie Valley) Light Horse [1912 - 1927]
17th Australian (Bendigo) Light Horse [1927 - 1931]
17th/19th Light Horse Regiment [1931 - 1933]
17th Australian (Prince of Wales) Light Horse [1933 - 1934]
17th/19th Light Horse Regiment [1934 - 1936]
17th Australian (Prince of Wales Light Horse) Machine Gun Regiment [1936 - 1941]
17th (Prince of Wales Light Horse) Motor Regiment [1941 - 1941]
17th Australian Motor Regiment [1941 - 1942]
4/19th (Prince of Wales Light Horse) Armoured Regiment [1948 - 1960]
"A" Squadron, 4/19th Prince of Wales Light Horse ARA [1960 - 1965]
4/19th Prince of Wales Light Horse [1965 - ]
Loyalty
Allied with: King Edward's Horse (The King's Overseas Dominions Regiment).
District
Northern Victoria
Brigade
7th Brigade
Headquarters
Echuca
Honorary Colonel
His Excellency John Michael Fleetwood Fuller, 1st Baronet of Neston Park
Commanding Officer
Major Leonard Long, 12 September 1910, Tenure of Command from 1 April 1911 to 31 March 1916.
Adjutant
Captain Donald McLennan, 26 April 1910.Assistant Adjutant
Lieutenant Thomas Williams, 12 October 1910.
Quartermaster
Honorary Lieutenant Robert Hampton, 16 May 1912.
Medical Officer
Captain Frederick Ernest Hutchinson, 23 October 1911.
Veterinary Officer
Lieutenant JB Leitch, Honorary Captain, Boer War Veteran, 15 March 1900.
Area Officers
Captain Donald McLennan, 26 April 1910.
Lieutenant Thomas Williams, 12 October 1910.
Secondment
Major A Caddy, Calcutta Light Horse, 1 September 1912.
Machine Gun Section
Bendigo
Vacant
"A" Squadron, Bendigo - Castlemaine - Kyneton - Dingee
Second Lieutenant Francis Edgar Jones, 26 March 1907.
Second Lieutenant Alexander Francis Connell, 3 April 1911.
Second Lieutenant James Taylor, 3 April 1911.
Second Lieutenant James Boyd Langdon, 10 April 1911.
Second Lieutenant Mare Cohn, 10 July 1911.
Second Lieutenant Frank Levy, 10 July 1911.
Second Lieutenant Frederick James Reddrop, 15 March 1912.
"B" Squadron, Echuca - Rochester - Elmore - Deniliquin
Lieutenant John Cahill, 8 August 1910.
Lieutenant George James Rankin, 4 March 1912.
Lieutenant John Mackintosh, 24 June 1912.
Second Lieutenant Thomas William Herbert Chilton, 3 April 1911.
Second Lieutenant Malcolm John Cochrane, 7 August 1911.
"C" Squadron, Kerang - Koondrook - Pyramid Hill - Mitiamo
Lieutenant Thomas Edwin Aicken, Boer War Veteran, 15 January 1912.
Second Lieutenant John Thomas McLaren, 24 July 1911.
Second Lieutenant Alexander Herbert McMaster, 15 March 1912.
Second Lieutenant Frederick Hamilton Milvane, 15 March 1912.
Second Lieutenant Charles Bramley Mann, 27 May 1912.
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Further Reading:
19th/17th Australian Light HorseVictoria Militia - Light Horse
Australian Militia Light Horse
Citation: 17th Australian (Victorian Mounted Rifles) Light Horse, December 1912
