Victorian Militia - Light Horse

1910

Towns throughout Victoria with a Light Horse Troop, 1910

The 1903 re-organisation of the Light Horse expanded and consolidated the number of units throughout Australia. Below is a list of towns in Victoria where a Light Horse troop was based. The towns are listed alphabetically with the particular Troop or Squadron noted next to it.

Alexandra - 7th Australian Light Horse Regiment No 2 Squadron part

Allansford - 11th Australian Light Horse Regiment No 1 Squadron part

Avenel - 7th Australian Light Horse Regiment No 1 Squadron part

Ballarat - 9th Australian Light Horse Regiment Headquarters, Machine Gun Section, and No 1 Squadron part

Beeac - 11th Australian Light Horse Regiment No 3 Squadron part

Benalla - 8th Australian Light Horse Regiment Headquarters, Machine Gun Section, and No 2 Squadron part

Bendigo - 9th Australian Light Horse Regiment No 3 Squadron

Box Hill - 10th Australian Light Horse Regiment No 5 Squadron part

Briagolong - 10th Australian Light Horse Regiment No 1 Squadron part

Broadford - 7th Australian Light Horse Regiment No 1 Squadron part

Bunyip - 10th Australian Light Horse Regiment Machine Gun Section and No 3 Squadron

Camperdown - 11th Australian Light Horse Regiment No 2 Squadron part

Cathkin - 7th Australian Light Horse Regiment No 2 Squadron part

Clunes - 9th Australian Light Horse Regiment No 2 Squadron part

Colac - 11th Australian Light Horse Regiment Machine Gun Section and No 2 Squadron part

Creswick - 9th Australian Light Horse Regiment No 2 Squadron part

Datson - 10th Australian Light Horse Regiment No 1 Squadron part

Dookie - 7th Australian Light Horse Regiment No 4 Squadron part

Drouin - 10th Australian Light Horse Regiment No 3 Squadron part

Dunkeld - 11th Australian Light Horse Regiment No 4 Squadron part

Echuca - 9th Australian Light Horse Regiment No 4 Squadron part

Euroa - 8th Australian Light Horse Regiment No 1 Squadron part

Geelong - 10th Australian Light Horse Regiment No 6 Squadron part

Hamilton - 11th Australian Light Horse Regiment No 4 Squadron part

Kerang - 9th Australian Light Horse Regiment No 4 Squadron part

Learmonth - 9th Australian Light Horse Regiment No 1 Squadron part

Longwood - 8th Australian Light Horse Regiment No 1 Squadron part

Mansfield - 7th Australian Light Horse Regiment No 2 Squadron part

Maryborough - 9th Australian Light Horse Regiment No 2 Squadron part

Melbourne - 10th Australian Light Horse Regiment No 5 Squadron part and No 6 Squadron

Moe - 10th Australian Light Horse Regiment No 2 Squadron part

Morwell - 10th Australian Light Horse Regiment No 2 Squadron part

Moyhu - 8th Australian Light Horse Regiment No 3 Squadron part

Murchison - 7th Australian Light Horse Regiment No 3 Squadron part

Myrtleford - 8th Australian Light Horse Regiment No 4 Squadron part

Nagambie - 7th Australian Light Horse Regiment No 3 Squadron part

Narre Warren - 10th Australian Light Horse Regiment No 3 Squadron part

Nirranda - 11th Australian Light Horse Regiment No 1 Squadron part

Numarkah - 7th Australian Light Horse Regiment No 4 Squadron part

Pyramid Hill - 9th Australian Light Horse Regiment No 4 Squadron part

Ringwood - 10th Australian Light Horse Regiment No 5 Squadron part

Rochester - 9th Australian Light Horse Regiment No 4 Squadron part

Rushworth - 7th Australian Light Horse Regiment No 3 Squadron part

Rutherglen - 8th Australian Light Horse Regiment No 3 Squadron part

Sale - 10th Australian Light Horse Regiment Headquarters and No 1 Squadron part

Seymour - 7th Australian Light Horse Regiment Machine Gun Section and No 1 Squadron part

Shepparton - 7th Australian Light Horse Regiment No 4 Squadron part

Stratford - 10th Australian Light Horse Regiment No 1 Squadron part

Talbot - 9th Australian Light Horse Regiment No 2 Squadron part

Tallygaroopna - 7th Australian Light Horse Regiment No 4 Squadron part

Tatura - 7th Australian Light Horse Regiment No 3 Squadron part

Terang - 11th Australian Light Horse Regiment No 2 Squadron part

Thoona - 8th Australian Light Horse Regiment No 2 Squadron part

Thorpdale - 10th Australian Light Horse Regiment No 2 Squadron part

Traralgon - 10th Australian Light Horse Regiment No 2 Squadron part

Violet Town - 8th Australian Light Horse Regiment No 1 Squadron part

Wangaratta - 8th Australian Light Horse Regiment No 3 Squadron part

Warragul - 10th Australian Light Horse Regiment No 3 Squadron part

Warrnambool - 11th Australian Light Horse Regiment Headquarters and No 1 Squadron part

Werribee - 10th Australian Light Horse Regiment No 6 Squadron part

Yarragon - 10th Australian Light Horse Regiment No 3 Squadron part

Yea - 7th Australian Light Horse Regiment Headquarters and No 1 Squadron part

Further Reading:

Citation: Victorian Light Horse location list 1910

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Victorian Militia - Rifle Club

1910

Victorian Rifle Club List, 1910

One of the most important adjuncts to the militia system from 1903 to the re-organisation of 1912 was the role played by the Rifle Club movement in Australia. At the time, these clubs were seen as the reservoir of manpower for a potential guerrilla force should any invasion occur. The doctrine was almost a copy of that pursued by the Boer forces in South Africa which successfully held the Imperial Army at bay for nearly three years. For Australia, the invasion fear was uppermost in the minds of the population. This fear found its articulation in a novel written by Charles H Kirmess (the nom de plume for Frank Fox) called "Commonwealth in Crisis" which was first serialised in the "Lone Hand" magazine which was largely funded by the Commonwealth Government via Alfred Deakin. The story was about a Japanese invasion of the Northern Territory in 1912 requiring the Commonwealth to resist with a guerrilla force of irregulars trained through the rifle clubs.

So important were the rifle clubs for the defence of Australia that the Commonwealth provided the training staff, rifles and ammunition so the clubs could function. Members were drilled, wore uniforms and practised all the basic skills of soldiering as well as target shooting.

Below is the list of Rifle Clubs which existed in every town throughout Victoria in 1910. The towns and cities are in alphabetical order. This particular date is the high point of the Rifle Club movement in Australia. With the coming of universal military training in 1912 and the Great War in 1914, the Rifle Clubs saw a decline in their importance within the Australian defence scheme.

Amphitheatre - Rifle Club
Apollo Bay - Rifle Club
Ararat - Rifle Club
Areega - Areega and Carron Rifle Club
Arthur's Creek - Rifle Club
Aubrey - Rifle Club
Avoca - Rifle Club
Avon Plains - Rifle Club

Baccus Marsh - Rifle Club
Bairnesdale - Rifle Club
Ballan - Rifle Club

Ballarat 

Ballarat Rifle Club
Canadian Rifle Club

Balmoral - Rifle Club
Barnawartha - Rifle Club
Bass Valley - Rifle Club
Beaconsfield - Rifle Club
Bealiba - Rifle Club
Beaufort - Rifle Club
Beeac - Rifle Club
Beech Forest - Rifle Club
Benalla - Rifle Club
Benambra - Rifle Club

Bendigo 

Bendigo Rifle Club
South Bendigo Rifle Club

Berrimal - Rifle Club
Berriwillock - Rifle Club
Beulah - Rifle Club
Birchip - Rifle Club
Birregurra - Rifle Club
Blackwood - Rifle Club
Bonang - Border Rifle Club
Bonnie Doon - Rifle Club
Boolarra - Rifle Club
Branxholme - Rifle Club
Briagolong - Rifle Club
Bright - Rifle Club
Brim - Rifle Club
Brim Springs - Rifle Club
Broadford - Rifle Club
Bruthen - Rifle Club
Buchan - Rifle Club
Buckland - Rifle Club
Buckrabanyule - Rifle Club
Buffalo River - Rifle Club
Bulga - Rifle Club
Buln Buln - Rifle Club
Bulumwaal - Rifle Club
Buninyong - Rifle Club
Bunyip - Rifle Club
Burrumbeet - Rifle Club
Byaduk - Rifle Club

Camperdown - Rifle Club
Caniambo - Rifle Club
Carboor - Rifle Club
Carisbrook - Rifle Club
Cassilis - Rifle Club
Casterton - Rifle Club
Castlemaine - Rifle Club
Charlton - Rifle Club
Cheltenham - Rifle Club
Cheshunt - Upper King Rifle Club
Chewton - Rifle Club
Chiltern - Rifle Club
Christmas Hill - Rifle Club
Clunes - Rifle Club
Cobram - Rifle Club
Cohuna - Rifle Club
Colac - Rifle Club
Coleraine - Rifle Club
Corack - Corack District Rifle Club
Corryong - Upper Murray Rifle Club
Creswick - Rifle Club

Dandenong - Rifle Club
Dargo - Rifle Club
Darnum - Rifle Club
Daylesford - Rifle Club
Derby - Rifle Club
Dergholm - Dergholm and Poolaijelo Rifle Club
Diamond Creek - Rifle Club
Digby - Rifle Club
Dimboola - Rifle Club
Donald - Rifle Club
Doncaster - Rifle Club
Dookie - Rifle Club
Drouin - Rifle Club
Dumbalk - Rifle Club
Dunolly - Rifle Club

Eaglehawk - Rifle Club
East Metcalfe - Rifle Club
Echuca - Rifle Club
Egerton - Rifle Club
Elmore - Rifle Club
Emerald - Rifle Club
Ensay - Rifle Club
Eskdale - Rifle Club
Euroa - Rifle Club
Everton - Rifle Club

Ferntree Gully - Rifle Club
Foster - Rifle Club
Frankston - Rifle Club

Gaffney's Creek - Rifle Club
Garfield - Rifle Club
Garvoc - Rifle Club
Geelong - Rifle Club
Gellibrand - Rifle Club
Gelliondale - Rifle Club
Gembrook - Rifle Club
Genoa River - Rifle Club
Gisborne - Rifle Club
Glen Alvie - Rifle Club
Glen Thompson - Rifle Club
Glenorchy - Rifle Club
Glenrowan - Rifle Club
Gobur - Rifle Club
Goorambat - Rifle Club
Gordon - Rifle Club
Gormondale - Rifle Club
Goschen - Rifle Club
Granya - Rifle Club
Great Western - Rifle Club
Grenville - Rifle Club
Gunbower - Rifle Club
Gunyah Gunyah - Rifle Club

Hamilton - Rifle Club
Hanson - Rifle Club
Harrietville - Rifle Club
Harrow - Rifle Club
Heathcote - Rifle Club
Heywood - Rifle Club
Hopetoun - Rifle Club
Hopevale - Rifle Club
Horsham - Rifle Club

Inglewood - Rifle Club
Inverleight - Rifle Club
Inverloch - Rifle Club
Irrewillipe - Rifle Club

Jullukar - Rifle Club
Jumbuk - Rifle Club

Kaniva - Rifle Club
Karramomus - Rifle Club
Katamatite - Rifle Club
Katandra - Rifle Club
Kerang - Rifle Club
Keyneton - Rifle Club
Kiewa Valley - Rifle Club
Kilmore - Rifle Club
Kinglake - Rifle Club
Kinimakatka - Kinimakatka Farmers' Rifle Club
Kongwak - Rifle Club
Koondrook - Rifle Club
Koroit - Rifle Club
Kyabran - Rifle Club

Lake Bolac - Rifle Club
Lancefield - Rifle Club
Landsborough - Rifle Club
Lang Lang - Rifle Club
Launching Place - Rifle Club
Lauriston - Rifle Club
Learmonth - Rifle Club
Leigh Road - Bannockburn Rifle Club
Leongatha - Rifle Club
Leopold - Rifle Club
Lexton - Rifle Club
Linton - Rifle Club
Lismore - Rifle Club
Little River - Rifle Club
Loch - Rifle Club
Locksley - Rifle Club
Longwood - Rifle Club
Lorne - Rifle Club
Lubeck - Rifle Club

Macarthur - Rifle Club
Maffra - Rifle Club
Majorca - Rifle Club
Maldon - Rifle Club
Malmsbury - Rifle Club
Mansfield - Rifle Club
Mardan - Rifle Club
Marloo - Rifle Club
Marong - Rifle Club
Maryborough - Rifle Club
Matlock - Rifle Club

Melbourne 

Boroondara Rifle Club
Brunswick Rifle Club
City Electric Supply Rifle Club
Coburg Rifle Club
Collingwood District Municipal Corporation Rifle Club
Collingwood Rifle Club
Dunlop Rubber Company Rifle Club
Essendon and Flemington Rifle Club
Fitzroy Rifle Club
Footscray Rifle Club
Government Printing Office Rifle Club
Hawthorn Rifle Club
Kew Rifle Club
Malvern Rifle Club
Melbourne Cricket Club Rifle Club
Melbourne Department of Public Works and Agriculture Rifle Club
Melbourne Rifle Club
Melbourne Tramways Rifle Club
Melbourne University Rifle Club
Melbourne University Rifles
Port Melbourne Rifle Club
Post and Telegraph Rifle Club
Prahan Rifle Club
Preston Rifle Club
Richmond Rifle Club
Sandringham Rifle Club
South and Port Melbourne Thistle Rifle Club
South Melbourne Rifle Club
South Yarra Rifle Club
St Kilda Rifle Club
Training College Rifle Club
Victorian Police Rifle Club
Victorian Railways Rifle Club

Mepunga - Rifle Club
Meredith - Rifle Club
Merino - Rifle Club
Merton - Rifle Club
Metung - Rifle Club
Mia Mia - Rifle Club
Mildura - Rifle Club
Milne's Ridge - Rifle Club
Minapre - Rifle Club
Minyip - Rifle Club
Mirboo North - Rifle Club
Mitre Lake - Rifle Club
Mitta Mitta - Rifle Club
Moe - Rifle Club
Molyullah - Rifle Club
Moonlight Head - Rifle Club
Mooroopna - Rifle Club
Morang - Rifle Club
Mortlake - Rifle Club
Mount Duneed - Rifle Club
Mount Prospect - Rifle Club
Mount Wills - Rifle Club
Moyston - Rifle Club
Murchison - Rifle Club
Murton - Rifle Club
Myrtleford - Rifle Club

Nagambie - Rifle Club
Narracan - Narracan Valley Rifle Club
Neerin - Rifle Club
Netherby - Rifle Club
Newham - Newham Rifle Club
Newstead - Rifle Club
Nhill - Rifle Club
Ninyeunook - Rifle Club
Noorat - Rifle Club
Noradjuha - Noradjuha District Rifle Club
Numarkah - Rifle Club
Nyah - Nyah and District Rifle Club
Nypo - Rifle Club

Omeo - Rifle Club
Orbost - Rifle Club
Ovens Valley - Rifle Club

Penhurst - Rifle Club
Piangil - Piangil and District Rifle Club
Pigeon Ponds - Rifle Club
Pomborneit - Rifle Club
Pomonal - Rifle Club
Poowong - Rifle Club
Port Campbell - Rifle Club
Port Fairy - Rifle Club
Portarlington - Rifle Club
Portland - Rifle Club

Quantong - Rifle Club
Queenscliff - Rifle Club
Queenstown - Caledonia Rifle Club

Rainbow - Rifle Club
Rapanyup - Rifle Club
Redhill - Rifle Club
Romney - Rifle Club
Roseberry - Rifle Club
Rushworth - Rifle Club
Rutherglen - Rifle Club

Sale - Rifle Club
Sandford - Rifle Club
Sea Lake - Rifle Club
Sea View - Rifle Club
Seymour - Rifle Club
Shepparton - Rifle Club
Shoreham - Rifle Club
Smeaton - Rifle Club
Smythesdale - Rifle Club
Sorrento - Rifle Club
South Barwon - Rifle Club
Springhurst - Rifle Club
St Arnaud - Rifle Club
Stacey's Bridge - Rifle Club
Stawell - Rifle Club
Steiglitz - Rifle Club
Stradbroke - Rifle Club
Stratford - Rifle Club
Strath Creek - Rifle Club
Strathbridge North - Rifle Club
Strathbridge South - Rifle Club
Strathmerton - Strathmerton Rifle Club
Swanpool - Rifle Club
Swift's Creek - Rifle Club

Talbot - Rifle Club
Talgarao - Rifle Club
Tallangatta - Rifle Club
Tallygaroopna - Rifle Club
Tanjil - Rifle Club
Taradale - Rifle Club
Tarnagulla - Rifle Club
Ten Mile - Ten Mile Mountain Rifle Club
Terang - Rifle Club
Thornton - Rifle Club
Thorpdale - Thorpdale and Narracan Rifle Club
Timboon - Rifle Club
Timmering - Rifle Club
Tolmie - Rifle Club
Tongala - Rifle Club
Toora - Rifle Club
Tooradin - Rifle Club
Trafalgar - Rifle Club
Traralgon - Rifle Club
Traynor's Lagoon - Rifle Club
Trentham - Rifle Club

Ultima - Rifle Club
Upper Traralgon Creek - Rifle Club

Violet Town - Rifle Club

Wahgunyah - Murray River Rifle Club
Walhalla - Rifle Club
Wall - Rifle Club
Walwa - Rifle Club
Wandiligong - Rifle Club
Wangaratta - Rifle Club
Wangrabelle - Rifle Club
Warragul - Rifle Club
Warrandyte - Rifle Club
Warrnambool - Rifle Club
Wedderburn - Rifle Club
Welshpool - Rifle Club

Werribee 

Werribee Metropolitan Farm Rifle Club
Werribee Rifle Club

Willaura - Rifle Club
Wodonga - Rifle Club
Woodend - Rifle Club
Wood's Pond - Rifle Club
Wunghnu - Rifle Club
Wycheproof - Rifle Club

Yackandandah - Rifle Club
Yalca - Rifle Club
Yanac-a-Yanac - Rifle Club
Yandoit - Yandoit District Rifle Club
Yarraby - Rifle Club
Yarragon - Rifle Club
Yarran - Rifle Club
Yarrawonga - Rifle Club
Yea - Rifle Club
Yielima - Rifle Club

Further Reading:

Victorian Militia - Rifle Clubs

Citation: Victorian Rifle Clubs 1910

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Another entry from the book written by Lieutenant Colonel Hüseyin Hüsnü Emir, called Yildirim. Every day, one page of the book will be posted. This is Page 91.

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9th LHR, AIF

Pro Gloria et Honore - For Glory and Honour

Regimental March -  Marching Through Georgia

The Diary

1914

Tuesday, October 6, 1914

Formation of the 7th Light Horse Regiment "B" Squadron at Morphettville Race Course, South Australia.

1915

Wednesday, October 6, 1915

9th Light Horse Regiment Location - Rhododendron Hill

9th Light Horse Regiment War Diary - Lieutenant Pender WS sent to hospital sick.

1916

Friday, October 6, 1916

9th Light Horse Regiment Location - Bir el Abd

9th Light Horse Regiment War Diary - Composite Squadron returned. GOC (Brigadier General Royston) inspected outpost line.

1917

Saturday, October 6, 1917

9th Light Horse Regiment Location - Um Urgan

9th Light Horse Regiment War Diary - The Regiment paraded mounted and marched to the vicinity of El Sha'uth where a dismounted attack scheme was carried out before the Commander in Chief, Allenby, General. Returned to bivouac at 1200

1918

Sunday, October 6, 1918

9th Light Horse Regiment Location - El Mudhamiye

9th Light Horse Regiment War Diary - In bivouac resting. Combined church parade. Thanks giving service for recent victory.

1919

Monday, October 6, 1918

9th Light Horse Regiment Location - Adelaide

9th Light Horse Regiment War Diary - Regiment disbanded.

Previous: 9th LHR AIF War Diary, 5 October

Next: 9th LHR AIF War Diary, 7 October

Sources:

See: 9th Australian Light Horse Regiment, Contents

Australian Light Horse Studies Centre, AIF War Diaries of the Great War, Site Transcription Policy

Further Reading:

9th Light Horse Regiment AIF

Bert Schramm Diary

9th Australian Light Horse Regiment, Roll of Honour 

Battles where Australians fought, 1899-1920

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Diaries of AIF Servicemen

Bert Schramm

6 October 1918

Bert Schramm

2823 Private Herbert Leslie SCHRAMM, a 22 year old Farmer from Whites River, South Australia. He enlisted on 17 February 1916; and at the conclusion of the war Returned to Australia, 10 July 1919.

During part of the course of his military service with the AIF, Bert Schramm kept a diary of his life. Bert was not a man of letters so this diary was produced with great effort on his behalf. Bert made a promise to his sweetheart, Lucy Solley, that he would do so after he received the blank pocket notebook wherein these entries are found. As a Brigade Scout since September 1918, he took a lead part in the September Offensive by the Allied forces in Palestine. Bert's diary entries are placed alongside those of the 9th Light Horse Regiment to which he belonged and to the 3rd Light Horse Brigade to which the 9th LHR was attached. On this basis we can follow Bert in the context of his formation.

The Diaries

The complete diary is now available on the Australian Light Horse Studies Centre Site at:

Bert Schramm Diary

Finding more about a service person. See:

Navigating the National Archives Service File 

 

Bert Schramm's Handwritten Diary, 5 - 11 October 1918

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Bert Schramm

Sunday, October 6, 1918

Bert Schramm's Location - El Mudhamiye

Bert Schramm's Diary -  Have had a good days rest today and we have a splendid camp amongst the trees. Rations are fairly scarce.

9th Light Horse Regiment War Diary

9th Light Horse Regiment Location - El Mudhamiye

9th Light Horse Regiment War Diary - In bivouac resting. Combined church parade. Thanks giving service for recent victory.

9th LHR AIF War Diary, 6 October 

Darley, TH, With the Ninth Light Horse in the Great War, Adelaide, Hassell Press, 1924, pp 163 - 166.

Kaukab

On October 6th 1918 a combined church parade and thanksgiving service for the recent victory was held, being attended by the whole Brigade.

Many thousands of prisoners, taken during the recent operations, had been collected at a point close to the village of El Mudhamiye, and on the banks of the stream which flowed through that place. This stream, which provided our drinking water supply, quickly became polluted to a degree which rendered it beyond the possibility of human consumption. Thousands of these prisoners were in urgent need of medical attendance, and there was the gravest suspicion of cholera, as they were dying like flies.

None of these men appeared to have the slightest idea of sanitation and their camping area was soon a place to be avoided. This state of affairs needed drastic action, and as their own officers appeared to take no notice of the deplorable condition of their men, Todd, Lieutenant Colonel TJ,, 10th Light Horse, was appointed Commandant of the Prisoner of War Compound, Kaukab.

Previous:  Bert Schramm's Diary, 5 October 1918

Next:  Bert Schramm's Diary, 7 October 1918

Sources Used:

Bert Schramm's Diary

National Archives Service File.

Embarkation Roll, AWM8.

Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour

Nominal Roll, AWM133, Nominal Roll of Australian Imperial Force who left Australia for service abroad, 1914-1918 War.

War Diaries and Letters

All War Diaries and letters cited on this site should be read in conjunction with the Australian Light Horse Studies Centre, War Diaries and Letters, Site Transcription Policy which may be accessed at:

Australian Light Horse Studies Centre, War Diaries and Letters, Site Transcription Policy 

Further Reading:

Bert Schramm Diary

Bert Schramm Diary, Album

Bert Schramm's Photo Album

9th Australian Light Horse Regiment, AIF

9th Australian Light Horse Regiment, War Diary, Day by Day Account

Battles where Australians fought, 1899-1920

Citation: Diaries of AIF Servicemen, Bert Schramm, 6 October 1918

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