7th/15th/20th ALH

7th/15th/20th Australian Light Horse

Contents

Victorian Mounted Rifles [1885 - 1903]
7th (Victorian Mounted Rifles) Australian Light Horse [1903 - 1912]
15th (Victorian Mounted Rifles) Australian Light Horse [1912 - 1918]
20th (Victorian Mounted Rifles) Australian Light Horse [1919 - 1941]
20th Australian (Victorian Mounted Rifles) Motor Regiment [1942 - 1943]
20th Australian Pioneer Battalion [1943 - 1945]
8th/13th (Victorian Mounted Rifles) Armoured Regiment [1948 - 1960]
8th/13th Victorian Mounted Rifles [1960 - ]

Pro Rege et Patria - For King and Country

 South Africa 1899 - 1902

Allied with: King Edward's Horse (The King's Overseas Dominions Regiment).

History:

Extracted from RK Peacock, Evolution of Australian Light Horse Regiments 1841-1935, p. 20.

The regiment may claim to have sprung from the Victorian Mounted Rifles, a volunteer organisation dated from 1885. In 1891, the Victorian Mounted Rifles was organised in two Battalions, the 1st having its headquarters at Melbourne with "A" to "F" Companies, composted of detachments hailing from Broadford, Yea, Avdnel, Cathkin, Mansfield, Murchison, Rushworth and Shepparton. The Federal re-organisation of 1903 these detachments were formed into the 7th Australian Light Horse Regiment (Victorian Mounted Rifles) a designation it held until 1912 when 4 squadrons of the 7th became the 15th Light Horse (Victorian Mounted Rifles). As such its title remained until 1921 when it was styled the 20th Light Horse Regiment (Victorian Mounted Rifles).

Items

History

7th/15th/20th Australian Light Horse, Members who served in the AIF 

Regimental Structure 1903 -1920

This section explores the evolution of the Regiment from its first origins as a Commonwealth formation. Each year maps the movement of men and often locations of the various Squadrons and Troops. To get the flavour of the Regiment, it is best to begin the journey at 1903 and follow though each year till the end.

7th Australian Light Horse

7th (Victorian Mounted Rifles) Australian Light Horse Regiment, December 1903

7th (Victorian Mounted Rifles) Australian Light Horse Regiment, 1904

7th (Victorian Mounted Rifles) Australian Light Horse Regiment, 1905 

7th (Victorian Mounted Rifles) Australian Light Horse Regiment, 1906

7th (Victorian Mounted Rifles) Australian Light Horse Regiment, 1907 

7th (Victorian Mounted Rifles) Australian Light Horse Regiment, 1908 

7th (Victorian Mounted Rifles) Australian Light Horse Regiment, 1909 

7th (Victorian Mounted Rifles) Australian Light Horse Regiment, 1910 

7th (Victorian Mounted Rifles) Australian Light Horse Regiment, 1911

7th (Victorian Mounted Rifles) Australian Light Horse Regiment, June 1912 

 

15th (Victorian Mounted Rifles) Australian Light Horse 

15th (Victorian Mounted Rifles) Australian Light Horse Regiment, December 1912 

15th (Victorian Mounted Rifles) Australian Light Horse Regiment, 1913 

15th (Victorian Mounted Rifles) Australian Light Horse Regiment, 1914

15th (Victorian Mounted Rifles) Australian Light Horse Regiment, 1915 

15th (Victorian Mounted Rifles) Australian Light Horse Regiment, 1916 

15th (Victorian Mounted Rifles) Australian Light Horse Regiment, 1917 

15th (Victorian Mounted Rifles) Australian Light Horse Regiment, 1918 

 

20th (Victorian Mounted Rifles) Australian Light Horse 

20th (Victorian Mounted Rifles) Australian Light Horse Regiment, 1919 

20th (Victorian Mounted Rifles) Australian Light Horse Regiment, 1920 

Roll of Honour

7th/15th/20th Australian Light Horse, Roll of Honour

Lest we forget. 

Further Reading:

7th/15th/20th Australian Light Horse

7th/15th/20th Australian Light Horse, Roll of Honour

Victoria Militia - Light Horse 

Australian Militia Light Horse

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7th/15th/20th ALH

7th/15th/20th Australian Light Horse

Members who served in the AIF

Victorian Mounted Rifles [1885 - 1903]
7th (Victorian Mounted Rifles) Australian Light Horse [1903 - 1912]
15th (Victorian Mounted Rifles) Australian Light Horse [1912 - 1918]
20th (Victorian Mounted Rifles) Australian Light Horse [1919 - 1941]
20th Australian (Victorian Mounted Rifles) Motor Regiment [1942 - 1943]
20th Australian Pioneer Battalion [1943 - 1945]
8th/13th (Victorian Mounted Rifles) Armoured Regiment [1948 - 1960]
8th/13th Victorian Mounted Rifles [1960 - ]

Pro Rege et Patria - For King and Country

 South Africa 1899 - 1902

Allied with: King Edward's Horse (The King's Overseas Dominions Regiment).

Below is a list of men who were known former members of the 29th (Port Phillip) Australian Light Horse who later served with the AIF during the Great War. The details listed are those at the time of AIF enlistment containing the rank, full name and unit in which he enlisted. 

607 Private Patrick Joseph AMOR, 8th Light Horse Regiment

608 Private William Stanwell ANDERSON, 8th Light Horse Regiment

218 Private James William ARBUTHNOT, 4th Light Horse Regiment

3777 Acting Corporal Thomas James BALMER, 4th Light Horse Regiment

226 Private Charles BIRD, 4th Light Horse Regiment

532 Farrier Sergeant David Keir BORRIE, 4th Light Horse Regiment

Lieutenant Murray William James BOURCHIER, 4th Light Horse Regiment

528 Private Roland Francis BRERETON, 13th Light Horse Regiment

10325 Gunner George BROWN-SHEPHERD, 2nd Field Artillery Brigade

2297 Private Douglas Blewitt BRUMLEY, 29th Battalion

Second Lieutenant Thomas Gilbert BRYANT, 8th Light Horse Regiment

220 Private Bennie Howarth BURGE, 4th Light Horse Regiment

221 Private Robert William BURGE, 4th Light Horse Regiment

2822 Private Thomas Edward BUSST, 4th Light Horse Regiment

300 Sergeant Colin Henry CAMERON, 8th Light Horse Regiment

2932 Acting Sergeant Hugh James CAMERON, 8th Light Horse Regiment

231 Bugler David Lee CHAMBERS, 4th Light Horse Regiment

2645 Private Frederick CHEESWRIGHT, 60th Battalion

230 Private Christopher Charles John CHRISTOFFERSON, 4th Light Horse Regiment

241 Private Harry (Izod) COLDICOTT, 4th Light Horse Regiment

232 Private Richard James COLES, 4th Light Horse Regiment

242 Private John Robert COSGROVE, 4th Light Horse Regiment

5015 Private Reginald Atchinson CRAIG, 21st Battalion

Second Lieutenant Andrew CRAWFORD, 8th Light Horse Regiment

1894 Private Arthur Martindale CROOK, 24th Battalion

2008 Private William Neil McCormick CUMMING, 4th Light Horse Regiment

Captain William John DAY, 8th Light Horse Regiment

4623 Private Fawcett James DINSDALE, Light Horse Reinforcements

Second Lieutenant Edgar Gordon DOWN, 8th Light Horse Regiment

248 Sergeant Donald William DRYSDALE, 4th Light Horse Regiment

2013 Private Norman Douglas DRYSDALE, 4th Light Horse Regiment

247 Squadron Sergeant Major Andrew DUNN, 4th Light Horse Regiment

Lieutenant William EWING, 13th Light Horse Regiment

1678 Private Matthew Paul FLYNN, 4th Light Horse Regiment

2016 Private Robert Bartholomew FONTANA, 4th Light Horse Regiment

3109 Private Alexander Gibson FORSYTH, 4th Light Horse Regiment

50 Corporal George William FUZZARD, 8th Light Horse Regiment

Major Ernest Albert Edward GREGORY, 8th Light Horse Regiment

3508 Acting Sergeant James Alexander HENDERSON, 4th Light Horse Regiment

266 Private Edward Francis Patrick HILLIEAR, 4th Light Horse Regiment

499 Private William Irvine HUTCHINSON, 8th Light Horse Regiment

285 Private Frank Melbourne IRVING, 4th Light Horse Regiment

283 Private Henry Gibson JEBB, 4th Light Horse Regiment

2644 Private William John Henry JOHNSON, 2nd Pioneer Battalion

Captain John KENDALL, 1st Division Ammunition Column

2889 Private John Joseph KENNEDY, 4th Light Horse Regiment

287 Lance Corporal John Michael KENNEDY, 4th Light Horse Regiment

288 Private Sylvester Daniel KENNEDY, 4th Light Horse Regiment

286 Private William Brown KERR, 4th Light Horse Regiment

336 Private William Henry KICHLER, 2nd Machine Gun Company

290 Private Robert KIDD, 4th Light Horse Regiment

3831 Private Leslie Gordon KITTLE, 8th Battalion

289 Private Walter KNIGHTS, 4th Light Horse Regiment

1091 Private Percival Vincent LADE, 13th Light Horse Regiment

Second Lieutenant Stephen LADE, 13th Light Horse Regiment

307 Private James Stanley MACKRELL, 4th Light Horse Regiment

2717 Private Herbert John Maxwell MANSON, 60th Battalion

Second Lieutenant Robert Stephen McALPIN, 4th Light Horse Regiment

423 Shoeing Smith Alexander McDONALD, 8th Light Horse Regiment

3228 Acting Corporal Archibald Stewart Duncan McINTYRE, 8th Light Horse Regiment

315 Private Duncan McKAY, 4th Light Horse Regiment

209 Private Vivian Claude McKENZIE, 4th Light Horse Regiment

1400 Private Jack Phillip McKINNEY, 13th Light Horse Regiment

629 Private Harold Alexander McLEAN, 8th Light Horse Regiment

2874 Private Lachlan Edwin Nichols McLEAN, 4th Light Horse Regiment

556 Private Harry William Crambe McLEISH, 4th Light Horse Regiment

314 Private Ronald McLEISH, 4th Light Horse Regiment

313 Private William Carlyle McLEISH, 4th Light Horse Regiment

2775 Private Manvers George Bernard MEADOWS, 8th Light Horse Regiment

861 Private John Alexander MEIKLEJOHN, 13th Light Horse Regiment

1560 Private Charles John MILLS, 3rd Battalion

Lieutenant Archibald Stuart MURRAY, 1st Light Horse Brigade Headquarters

430 Private William Joseph NEWNHAM, 8th Light Horse Regiment

318 Private John Edward NEWTON, 4th Light Horse Regiment

142 Private Walter Edwards NEWTON, 8th Light Horse Regiment

910 Private Raymond Walter PATTERSON, 8th Light Horse Regiment

64501 Private William Eric PETERS, 6th General Service Reinforcements, Victoria

Honorary Second Lieutenant Jack Hambleton PIKE, 8th Battalion

3585 Private Ernest Charles PLAISTED, 4th Light Horse Regiment

Lieutenant Eric Clive Pegus PLANT, 1st Division Headquarters

2778 Private Keith George PORTER, 8th Light Horse Regiment

47 Corporal Albert Henry George PRATT, 13th Light Horse Regiment

324 Private Edwin Gerald Tremayne PRIMROSE, 4th Light Horse Regiment

1444 Private William Cornelius PROVIS, 8th Light Horse Regiment

1337 Private William George PURVIS, 4th Light Horse Regiment

1115 Private Frank Patrick QUIRK, 4th Light Horse Regiment

2374 Private Ivo READ, 4th Light Horse Regiment

16 Driver William Horace REARDON, 4th Light Horse Regiment

328 Corporal Rupert REYNOLDS, 4th Light Horse Regiment

Lieutenant William ROSS, 4th Light Horse Regiment

446 Private Richard SHELDON, 8th Light Horse Regiment

336 Private William SHIRLEY, 4th Light Horse Regiment

67464 Private Roy Alfred SIMONS, 24th General Service Reinforcements, New South Wales

10381 Gunner Harry Armstrong SIMSON, 2nd Field Artillery Brigade

64574 Private Wilfred Raymond SLEE, 6th General Service Reinforcements, Victoria

334 Private William Archibald Purcell SNODGRASS, 4th Light Horse Regiment

346 Squadron Sergeant Major John STEWART, 4th Light Horse Regiment

335 Private Gordon STORY, 4th Light Horse Regiment

533 Private George Scorgie STRACHAN, 4th Light Horse Regiment

661 Private Claude Wilfred Douglas STRONG, 8th Light Horse Regiment

340 Corporal Arno Edgar SYMONS, 4th Light Horse Regiment

Lieutenant John McKenzie TAYLOR, 8th Light Horse Regiment

Lieutenant Thomas Harvey TEMPLETON, 14th Battalion

351 Private William John THOMPSON, 4th Light Horse Regiment

357 Private Percy John VINING, 4th Light Horse Regiment

358 Private Curthell WADDELL, 4th Light Horse Regiment

470 Private Young Hargreaves WALKER, 8th Light Horse Regiment

2790 Private Frank Harry WALLIS, 8th Light Horse Regiment

976 Private John Robert WALSH, 4th Light Horse Regiment

7099 Private Alfred WASHINGTON, 14th Battalion

4 Saddler Sergeant Henry Parks WILLIAMS, 4th Light Horse Regiment

68675 Private Thomas Dynon YELVERTON, 14th General Service Reinforcements, Victoria

365 Private Alexander Donaldson YOUNG, 4th Light Horse Regiment

153 Private Robert Edwin YOUNG, 14th Battalion

Acknowledgement: Many thanks to Steve Becker who provided much of the raw material that appears in this item.
 

Further Reading:

7th/15th/20th Australian Light Horse

7th/15th/20th Australian Light Horse, Roll of Honour

Victoria Militia - Light Horse 

Australian Militia Light Horse

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7th/20th/4th ALH

7th/15th/20th Australian Light Horse

Great War

Roll of Honour

Poppies on the Roll of Honour, Australian War Memorial, Canberra

The Roll of Honour contains the names of all the men known to have served at one time with the 11th/20th/4th Australian Light Horse and gave their lives in service of Australia, whether as part of the Australian Imperial Force or another unit during the Great War.

Roll of Honour

Patrick Joseph AMOR, Killed in Action, 7 August 1915

William Stanwell ANDERSON, Killed in Action, 7 August 1915

 

 

Douglas Blewitt  BRUMLEY, Died of Wounds, 12 July 1917

Colin Henry CAMERON, Killed in Action, 7 August 1915

Frederick CHEESWRIGHT , Killed in Action, 26 September 1917

Harry (Izod) COLDICOTT, Died of Wounds, 7 June 1917

Reginald Atchinson  CRAIG, Killed in Action, 18 October 1918

Arthur Martindale  CROOK, Died of Wounds, 6 August 1916

 

Maurice Michael DONNELLY, Killed in Action, 19 April 1917

Edgar Gordon DOWN, Killed in Action, 23 December 1916

Oscar Thomas DUNN, Killed in Action, 28 June 1915

 

Robert Bartholomew FONTANA, Killed in Action, 1 September 1918

Alexander Gibson FORSYTH, Died of Disease, 2 April 1917

 

Ernest Albert Edward GREGORY, Killed in Action, 27 June 1915

 

Edward Francis Patrick HILLIEAR, Died of Wounds, 5 August 1915, buried at sea

William Irvine HUTCHINSON, Died of Wounds, 31 October 1917

 

Sylvester Daniel KENNEDY, Died of Wounds, 26 August 1918

John Michael KENNEDY, Died of Wounds, 6 August 1915, buried at sea

John Joseph KENNEDY, Killed in Action, 15 April 1918

Robert KIDD, Killed in Action, 25 October 1917

 

Stephen LADE, Died of Wounds, 25 September 1917

 

Herbert John Maxwell  MANSON, Killed in Action, 27 April 1918

William Carlyle McLEISH, Died of Disease, 6 April 1915

Charles John  MILLS, Died of Wounds, 7 August 1915

 

Walter Edwards NEWTON, Killed in Action, 7 August 1915

 

Raymond Walter  PATTERSON, Killed in Action, 7 August 1915

William George PURVIS, Killed in Action, 12 October 1917

 

Rupert REYNOLDS, Died of Wounds, 4 January 1917

 

John STEWART, Killed in Action, 30 July 1915

 

Thomas Harvey  TEMPLETON, Killed in Action, 24 September 1917

 

Alfred  WASHINGTON, Killed in Action, 10 August 1917

 

Robert Edwin  YOUNG, Died of Wounds, 29 April 1915, buried at sea

Lest we forget. 

Further Reading:

7th/15th/20th Australian Light Horse

Victoria Militia - Light Horse 

Australian Militia Light Horse

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7th ALH

7th (Victorian Mounted Rifles) Australian Light Horse

December 1903

Victorian Mounted Rifles [1885 - 1903]
7th (Victorian Mounted Rifles) Australian Light Horse [1903 - 1912]
15th (Victorian Mounted Rifles) Australian Light Horse [1912 - 1918]
20th (Victorian Mounted Rifles) Australian Light Horse [1919 - 1941]
20th Australian (Victorian Mounted Rifles) Motor Regiment [1942 - 1943]
20th Australian Pioneer Battalion [1943 - 1945]
8th/13th (Victorian Mounted Rifles) Armoured Regiment [1948 - 1960]
8th/13th Victorian Mounted Rifles [1960 - ]

Pro Rege et Patria - For King and Country

1903 Reorganisation, Victoria

The Broadford, Avenel, Yea, Cathkin, Mansfield, Murchison, Rushworth, and Shepparton Detachments of Victorian Mounted Rifles to be formed into the 7th Australian Light Horse Regiment (Victorian Mounted Rifles).

District

Goulburn River and (or Central) Victoria

Brigade

3rd Northern Victoria Brigade

Headquarters

Yea

Honorary Colonel

The Right Honorable Baron Hallam Tennyson, GCMG.

Commanding Officer

Lieutenant Colonel D McLeish, CMG.

Adjutant

Lieutenant OR Scale.

Quartermaster 

Vacant.

Medical Officer

Captain JC Morton.

Veterinary Officer

Vacant.

1st Seymour - Broadford - Avenel Squadron

Lieutenant RN Corney

 
2nd Yea - Mansfield Squadron

Lieutenant FG Purcell

Lieutenant AW Crockett

Lieutenant AN Aitken

3rd Murchison - Rushworth Squadron

Lieutenant HJE Brisbane

Lieutenant EAE Gregory

 
4th Shepparton Squadron

Captain GF Thorn

Lieutenant J Nugent

Previous: 7th/15th/20th Australian Light Horse

Next: 7th (Victorian Mounted Rifles) Australian Light Horse, 1904

Further Reading:

7th/15th/20th Australian Light Horse

Victoria Militia - Light Horse 

Australian Militia Light Horse

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7th ALH

7th (Victorian Mounted Rifles) Australian Light Horse

1904

Victorian Mounted Rifles [1885 - 1903]
7th (Victorian Mounted Rifles) Australian Light Horse [1903 - 1912]
15th (Victorian Mounted Rifles) Australian Light Horse [1912 - 1918]
20th (Victorian Mounted Rifles) Australian Light Horse [1919 - 1941]
20th Australian (Victorian Mounted Rifles) Motor Regiment [1942 - 1943]
20th Australian Pioneer Battalion [1943 - 1945]
8th/13th (Victorian Mounted Rifles) Armoured Regiment [1948 - 1960]
8th/13th Victorian Mounted Rifles [1960 - ]

Pro Rege et Patria - For King and Country

District

Goulburn River and (or Central) Victoria

Brigade

3rd Northern Victoria Brigade

Headquarters

Yea

Honorary Colonel

The Right Honorable Baron Hallam Tennyson, GCMG.

Commanding Officer

Lieutenant Colonel D McLeish, CMG.

Adjutant

Lieutenant OR Scale.

Quartermaster 

Honorary Lieutenant WF Smith.

Medical Officer

Captain JC Morton.

Veterinary Officer

Captain HS Ruddock.

1st Seymour - Broadford - Avenel Squadron

Lieutenant RN Corney.

Second Lieutenant JM Neill, 1 March 1904.

2nd Yea - Mansfield Squadron

Lieutenant FG Purcell.

Lieutenant AW Crockett.

Lieutenant AN Aitken.

Second Lieutenant W Parsons, 1 March 1904.

3rd Murchison - Rushworth Squadron

Lieutenant HJE Brisbane.

Lieutenant EAE Gregory.

 
4th Shepparton Squadron

Captain GF Thorn

Lieutenant J Nugent

Second Lieutenant SA Jacob, 1 March 1904.

Previous: 7th (Victorian Mounted Rifles) Australian Light Horse, December 1903

Next: 7th (Victorian Mounted Rifles) Australian Light Horse, 1905 

Further Reading:

7th/15th/20th Australian Light Horse

Victoria Militia - Light Horse 

Australian Militia Light Horse

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