• The Victorian Mounted Rifles (VMR) was a regiment composed of Australian forces that served in the Second Boer War. It was first raised by Colonel Tom...
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  • "8th/13th Armoured Regiment (Victorian Mounted Rifles), but in 1949 it was renamed the "8th/13th Victorian Mounted Rifles". The regiment drew its lineage...
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    1st New South Wales Mounted Rifles, 'A' Field Battery of the NSW Artillery, the NSW Medical Team, and the 2nd Victorian Mounted Rifles all arrived in February...
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    attendance. Nevertheless, at the start of the decade the Victorian Mounted Rifles were used by the Victorian government to provide assistance to police during...
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    Jobson 2009, p. 118. Victorian Mounted Rifles Association (8 April 2020). "Beret and Badge". Official Site of the Victorian Mounted Rifles Association. Hopkins...
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    worked on his father's property. In March 1891 he enlisted in the Victorian Mounted Rifles. Following the outbreak of the Second Boer War, Maygar unsuccessfully...
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  • Sale and Bairnsdale which had previously been used by 8th/13th Victorian Mounted Rifles. Later, in 1965, the regiment added the former gunners at Traralgon...
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    Slouch hat (category North-West Mounted Police)
    by military forces in Australia in 1885 when the newly created Victorian Mounted Rifles adopted the hat as part of their uniform after their commanding...
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    of the Victorian Mounted Rifles in 1898. Following the outbreak of the Second Boer War he enlisted as a private in the 1st Victorian Mounted Infantry...
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  • of the Victorian Mounted Rifles on manoeuvres in 1889. A trooper of the New South Wales Mounted Rifles, c. 1900. South Australian Mounted Rifles training...
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    Dartnell joined the Victorian Mounted Rifles, a part-time colonial militia unit. The regiment was mobilised as the 5th Victorian (Mounted Rifles) Contingent in...
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    Australian Light Horse were mounted troops with characteristics of both cavalry and mounted infantry, who served in the Second Boer War and World War...
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    Regiment (Victorian Mounted Rifles), which had been formed in 1918. This unit had evolved from the 15th Light Horse Regiment (Victorian Mounted Rifles), which...
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  • in India before returning to Australia. In 1885, he raised the Victorian Mounted Rifles, and was instrumental in establishing the concept of light horse...
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    Hamilton and erected in 1904 with members of the fifth Victorian Contingent Victorian Mounted Rifles. The Walker Fountain was donated by Ron Walker, Lord...
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    Oliver Evans. 1965. "8th/13th Victorian Mounted Rifles Regimental Collection". Victorian Collections. Museums Victoria, Victorian State Government. 14 December...
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    South Africa, 12 June 1901. The battlefield trials of the 5th Victorian Mounted Rifles". alh-research.tripod.com/Light_Horse. Retrieved 8 December 2022...
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    before joining the Victorian Mounted Rifles. Following the outbreak of the Second Boer War, Bell enlisted in Victorian Mounted Infantry as a private...
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    months in Victorian Mounted Rifles." The Traralgon & District Historical Society; The Australian Boer War Memorial: Victorian Mounted Rifles. [1] The events...
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    by the Western Australian Mounted Infantry of Hatherley Moor. The hill was attacked by the New South Wales Mounted Rifles, who trotted across the plain...
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  • Natal Hussars, the Durban Mounted Rifles, Alexandra Mounted Rifles, Stanger Mounted Rifles, and the Victorian Mounted Rifles. There were also some 2,200...
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    tanks in the immediate post–war period, including the 8th/13th Victorian Mounted Rifles (8th/13th VMR) and the 4th/19th Prince of Wales's Light Horse (4th/19th...
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  • South Australia, Western Australia, and Tasmania, as well as the Victorian Mounted Rifles squadron; the only colony not ultimately represented was Queensland...
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    Kyneton Mounted Rifle Corps was among the earliest in the colony of Victoria. The corps was later amalgamated in the 1880s to form the Victorian Mounted Rifles...
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    Lieberman Boyd. He also did National Service and served in 8/13 VMR (Victorian Mounted Rifles) working with Centurion tanks. He served on the local consultative...
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    The South Australian Mounted Rifles (SAMR) was a mounted infantry unit of the Colony of South Australia that served in the Second Boer War. The first...
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  • Royal Horse Artillery 8th Royal Field Artillery 6th Mounted Infantry 2nd Victorian Mounted Rifles De La Rey's Force Wolmaransstad Commando Rustenburg...
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    Reconnaissance Regiment (Australian Horse) 8th/13th Victorian Mounted Rifles 6th New South Wales Mounted Rifles 15th Northern River Lancers 1st Armoured Regiment...
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    Battalion Estrees, France AWM Leslie Maygar 1901 Second Boer War 5th Victorian Mounted Rifles Geelhoutboom, South Africa AWM Dominic McCarthy 1918 First World...
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    military staff. On 4 June 1886, Hoad was appointed as adjutant of the Victorian Mounted Rifles, and through his aptitude, was quickly promoted to captain, and...
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