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Natal Mounted Rifles

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133 records in this database
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Formation Type Relationship Dates
81 Armoured Brigade Brigade organic
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84 Motorised Brigade Brigade organic
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Volunteer Militias 1903–1909 — Mounted Rifles Category organic
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2nd South African Infantry Brigade Brigade organic 1940-05-13 – 1940-12-31
South African Army order of battle 1940 (expeditionary / mobilisation brigades).

Eras

Dates Force Role Status
1888-01-01 Mounted Rifles, later Armoured Reconnaissance Volunteer unit (pre-1913); Active Citizen Force (Reserve) from 1913
Lineage from the Royal Durban Rangers (1854) through several volunteer mounted units, unified as Natal Mounted Rifles 1888. Reactivated for the Boer War as Natal Mounted Infantry. Transferred to the Active Citizen Force 1913; converted from cavalry to armoured reconnaissance 1934. Renamed Queen Nandi Mounted Rifles 2019. Source

Personnel

133 on the roll across 3 Force tags — this organisation name is shared by more than one defence force / era.

All (133) Union Defence Force (120) Colonial forces (pre-Union) (11) South African Defence Force (2)
# Last Name First Name Initials Rank Force Regiment Corps Unit Date of Death
20592 Powell Eric Gordon E G Private UDF Natal Mounted Rifles South African Infantry Corps 1st 1946-06-21
20830 Putterill Idris Wilmore I W Private UDF Natal Mounted Rifles South African Infantry Corps 1944-03-18
21292 Reid Marshall Graham Hugh M G H Trooper UDF Natal Mounted Rifles South African Infantry Corps 1944-07-01
21310 Reinecke Pitrus Jacobus Linds P J L Private UDF Natal Mounted Rifles South African Infantry Corps 1st 1941-11-17
21428 Richards Trevor Edward T E Private UDF Natal Mounted Rifles South African Infantry Corps 1st 1944-11-23
21497 Rigby Donald Inglis D I Trooper UDF Natal Mounted Rifles South African Infantry Corps 1944-06-08
21756 Rogers Raymond Noel R N Captain UDF Natal Mounted Rifles South African Infantry Corps 1st 1942-10-10
22441 Scholz Wilhelm Joseph W J Trooper UDF Natal Mounted Rifles South African Infantry Corps 1944-06-06
22456 Schou Andrew Henry A H Trooper UDF Natal Mounted Rifles South African Infantry Corps 1944-06-08
22524 Scott Eric James Ratcliffe E J R Private UDF Natal Mounted Rifles South African Infantry Corps 1941-06-22
22561 Scott William Martinus W M Trooper UDF Natal Mounted Rifles South African Infantry Corps 1944-02-01
22770 Serridge Vernon Holman V H Trooper UDF Natal Mounted Rifles South African Infantry Corps 1944-06-12
23467 Smith Dudley Edward D E Lieutenant UDF Natal Mounted Rifles South African Infantry Corps 1944-06-12
23587 Smith Percival George Dreadnought P G D Private UDF Natal Mounted Rifles South African Infantry Corps 1942-10-23
33025 Smith Reginald Edward R E Trooper SADF Natal Mounted Rifles Natal Mounted Rifles 1976-03-25
23752 Solomon Michael John M J Trooper UDF Natal Mounted Rifles South African Infantry Corps 1944-06-21
23755 Solomon Stanley Owen S O Private UDF Natal Mounted Rifles South African Infantry Corps 1st Bn. 1942-06-15
24283 Stone Reginald Kilwa R K Corporal UDF Natal Mounted Rifles South African Infantry Corps 1942-07-17
24320 Strachan GORDON MacINTYRE G M Corporal UDF Natal Mounted Rifles South African Infantry Corps 1943-04-10
24318 Strachan George Douglas G D Private UDF Natal Mounted Rifles South African Infantry Corps 1942-05-10
24473 Sullivan Terence Howard T H Trooper UDF Natal Mounted Rifles South African Infantry Corps 1944-06-26
24528 Swales Gordon Leslie Ratsey G L R Trooper UDF Natal Mounted Rifles South African Infantry Corps 1944-06-08
49571 Thomas G G Trooper COLONIAL Natal Mounted Rifles 1900-01-24
25440 Travers Percival George P G Private UDF Natal Mounted Rifles South African Infantry Corps 1942-01-04
26557 Van Der Au William Ernest W E Trooper UDF Natal Mounted Rifles South African Infantry Corps 1944-09-21
26913 Van Niekerk Willem Jacobus Martinus W J M Corporal UDF Natal Mounted Rifles South African Infantry Corps 1st 1942-10-25
27005 Van Rosenveldt Leonard Lewis L L Trooper UDF Natal Mounted Rifles South African Infantry Corps 1944-06-10
27421 Visagie Sarel Petrus Jacobus S P J Private UDF Natal Mounted Rifles South African Infantry Corps 1942-10-28
27479 Von Keyserlingk Arthur Harold A H Sergeant UDF Natal Mounted Rifles South African Infantry Corps 1st Bn. 1944-07-17
28690 Winlock George G Private UDF Natal Mounted Rifles South African Infantry Corps 1st Bn. 1942-06-15
28698 Winter John J Private UDF Natal Mounted Rifles South African Infantry Corps 1st 1941-12-02
28821 Woods Henry Michael H M Corporal UDF Natal Mounted Rifles South African Infantry Corps 1st 1942-06-09
28946 Wynn John Robert Irvin J R I Major UDF Natal Mounted Rifles South African Infantry Corps 1945-07-11