• The South African Light Horse regiment of the British Army were raised in Cape Colony in 1899 and disbanded in 1907. The commanding officer tasked with...
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    Johannesburg Light Horse Regiment (JLHR, formerly the Light Horse Regiment, LHR), is a reserve armoured car reconnaissance unit of the South African Army. The...
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    addition to the Imperial Light Horse) were the South African Light Horse, Rimington's Guides, Kitchener's Horse and the Imperial Light Infantry.[citation needed]...
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    Winston Churchill. Hachette UK. p. 92. ISBN 978-0786740154. The South African Light Horse, having no baggage train and living largely off the country, were...
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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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    Jack Churchill (1880–1947) (category South African Light Horse officers)
    the Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars in 1898. He served in the South African Light Horse alongside his war correspondent brother in the Second Boer War...
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    Winston Churchill (category South African Light Horse officers)
    East Africa. His escape attracted much publicity. In January 1900, he briefly rejoined the army as a lieutenant in the South African Light Horse regiment...
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    Julian Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy (category South African Light Horse officers)
    lieutenant colonel and tasked with raising and commanding the South African Light Horse during the Second Boer War. Byng thereafter served on the front...
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  • Reginald Barnes (category South African Light Horse officers)
    Bangalore. In 1899, Barnes was seconded as adjutant to the Imperial Light Horse in South-Africa, and on 31 December 1899 he was promoted to captain. He was present...
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    the British South African Light Horse, was initially equipped with Ferret scout cars. Following the aggressive nature of South African reconnaissance doctrine...
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  • locally raised irregulars like the Imperial Light Horse and South African Light Horse. As artillery was of limited use against scattered Boer guerrilla...
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    that action. Winston Churchill, then a young Lieutenant in the South African Light Horse and a war correspondent, was impressed by the effect of the fire...
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    depression. Churchill also fought in the Boer War, serving in the South African Light Horse. Churchill was very fond of his flock of black swans. Sir Philip...
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    Hussars, attached 21st Lancers Winston Churchill – Lieutenant, South African Light Horse and war correspondent (prisoner of war) Winston Churchill – Major...
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  • Charles à Court Repington (category South African Light Horse officers)
    lieutenant-colonel. He served as a staff officer during the Second Boer War in South Africa 1899–1901, and was appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and...
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    Britain. In January 1900 he was appointed a lieutenant in the South African Light Horse regiment, joining General Buller's fight to relieve the Siege...
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  • Durban 3rd South African Infantry Brigade 1st Imperial Light Horse – Johannesburg 1st Royal Durban Light Infantry – Durban 1st Rand Light Infantry – Johannesburg...
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    Will Longstaff (category South African Light Horse officers)
    joining the military and serving in the Boer War as a member of the South African Light Horse.[citation needed] He was the cousin of portrait painter Sir John...
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    The South African Army is the principal land warfare force of South Africa, a part of the South African National Defence Force (SANDF), along with the...
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    were veterans of the New South Wales Lancers who had fought in South Africa. Sailing from Sydney on 19 October, the 1st Light Horse disembarked in Egypt on...
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  • Regiment Transvaal Horse Artillery South African Heavy Artillery SA MR Field Artillery S.A. Police (1913–1994) S.A. Mounted Rifles South African Irish Regiment...
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    Horse Harry" Horse&Rider, magazine formerly called Light Horse Light Horse Regiment, South African Army unit Lighthorse (American Indian police) The Lighthorsemen...
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    the Gariep on the Orange River. Like much of the African continent south of the Sahara, South Africa's landscape is dominated by a high Central Plateau...
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  • English-speaking White South Africans trace their ancestry to the 1820 British, Irish, and Dutch colonists. The remainder of the White South African population consists...
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  • 3rd/9th Light Horse (South Australian Mounted Rifles), which is currently part of the Australian Army Reserve. On 17 August 1914, the 3rd Light Horse Regiment...
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    South African 3rd Infantry Division was an infantry division of the South African Army during World War II. This division was formed in South Africa on...
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  • Regiment 3rd South African Infantry Brigade (Brig C.E. Borain, MC, VD): Imperial Light Horse 1st Royal Durban Light Infantry Rand Light Infantry 5th Field...
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    The 3rd Light Horse Brigade was a mounted infantry brigade of the Australian Imperial Force (AIF), which served in the Middle Eastern theatre of World...
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    The 2nd/14th Light Horse Regiment (Queensland Mounted Infantry) is a regiment of the Australian Army and forms part of the Royal Australian Armoured Corps...
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