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Imperial Light Horse

Regiment

UDF 154 records in this database

Served in the German South-West Africa campaign (Northern Force / mounted brigades). Mentioned throughout W. Whittall, With Botha and Smuts in Africa (1917/2009 reprint).

Colonial mounted regiment. Gillings records Capt H. Bottomley’s ILH with Maj Duncan Mackenzie’s Natal Carbineers in Gough’s composite regiment entering Ladysmith on 28 February 1900 at the relief. Source: Gillings, Ken. While They Kept The Flag Flying: The Relief of Ladysmith — The Battle of the Thukela Heights, 12th to 28th February 1900. 2nd ed. Just Done Productions / Lulu, 2012 (ISBN 978-1-920315-80-1).

Part of

Formation	Type	Relationship	Dates
3rd 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
1913-01-01	UDF	Mounted Rifles, later Armoured Car	Active Citizen Force (Reserve)
Formed 21 September 1899 as the Imperial Light Horse (Second Boer War). Volunteer unit in the Transvaal Volunteers 1902-1913, then transferred to the Active Citizen Force as "5th Mounted Rifles (Imperial Light Horse)" in 1913. Reformed as an armoured regiment 1949; split into 1 LHR/2 LHR 1975 (Border War era), reamalgamated 1997. Renamed Johannesburg Light Horse Regiment 2019. Source

Personnel

154 on the roll across 2 Force tags — this organisation name is shared by more than one defence force / era.

All (154) Union Defence Force (119) Colonial forces (pre-Union) (35)

#	Last Name	First Name	Initials	Rank	Force	Regiment	Corps	Unit	Date of Death
49549	Gardner	Clement Thomas	C T	Trooper	COLONIAL	Imperial Light Horse			1900-05-13
8219	Ginsberg	Max	M	Lance Corporal	UDF	Imperial Light Horse	South African Infantry Corps	1st	1941-07-21
8266	Gluckmann	Joseph	J	Lance Corporal	UDF	Imperial Light Horse	South African Infantry Corps	1st Bn.	1944-06-10
8314	Goldby	Walter Victor	W V	Lieutenant	UDF	Imperial Light Horse	South African Infantry Corps	1st	1941-12-31
49328	Gorton	Henry Corbett	H C	Trooper	COLONIAL	Imperial Light Horse			1900-01-10
8556	Grahame	Douglas Frederick	D F	Corporal	UDF	Imperial Light Horse	South African Infantry Corps	1st	1941-02-12
8731	Gregory	Mervyn Harold	M H	Private	UDF	Imperial Light Horse	South African Infantry Corps	1st	1941-12-31
8780	Griffith	John Noel Hook	J N H	Lieutenant	UDF	Imperial Light Horse	South African Infantry Corps	1st	1941-12-31
49550	Haddow	James	J	Corporal	COLONIAL	Imperial Light Horse			1900-01-06
9319	Harrison	John Hutchinson	J H	Corporal	UDF	Imperial Light Horse	South African Infantry Corps	1st Bn.	1942-01-01
9333	Harrowsmith	Denis Charles	D C	Corporal	UDF	Imperial Light Horse	South African Infantry Corps	1st	1942-06-15
9339	Hart	Edward Steven	E S	Lance Corporal	UDF	Imperial Light Horse	South African Infantry Corps	1st	1941-12-31
9557	Hean	Donovan Stanley Duff	D S D	Private	UDF	Imperial Light Horse	South African Infantry Corps	1st	1941-12-31
30668	Heeley	Walter Harden	W H	Lieutenant	UDF	Imperial Light Horse		Uklf Csg	1922-03-11
9615	Helling	Ronald	R	Corporal	UDF	Imperial Light Horse	South African Infantry Corps	1st	1941-12-31
9709	Henning	Alwyn Petrus	A P	Private	UDF	Imperial Light Horse	South African Infantry Corps	1st	1942-03-18
30750	Horwell	Francis	F	Second Lieutenant	UDF	Imperial Light Horse	South African Infantry Corps	5 South African Infantry Battalion	1922-03-12
49551	Howard	George	G	Trooper	COLONIAL	Imperial Light Horse			1900-01-06
10744	Israel	Charles	C	Private	UDF	Imperial Light Horse	South African Infantry Corps	1st	1941-12-31
10890	Jacobs	John Reginald Maurice	J R M	Captain	UDF	Imperial Light Horse	South African Infantry Corps	2nd Bn.	1942-10-24
11031	Jane	Harry Kneale	H K	Corporal	UDF	Imperial Light Horse	South African Infantry Corps	1st	1941-12-31
49564	Johnston	A H	A H	Trooper	COLONIAL	Imperial Light Horse			1900-08-01
11560	Joseph	Willie	W	Private	UDF	Imperial Light Horse	South African Infantry Corps	1st	1941-12-31
11854	Katzenstein	Kurt Manfred	K M	Private	UDF	Imperial Light Horse	South African Infantry Corps		1942-06-07
49552	King	Graham Maxfield	G M	Trooper	COLONIAL	Imperial Light Horse			1900-07-07
31074	King	Harold Henry	H H	Trooper	UDF	Imperial Light Horse	South African Infantry Corps	4 South African Infantry Battalion	1922-03-11
49536	Kirk	Edwin Edward	E E	Lieutenant	COLONIAL	Imperial Light Horse			1900-07-06
31087	Kirsten	William Andrew	W A	Corporal	UDF	Imperial Light Horse		Nelspruit Commando	1922-03-11
49533	Knapp	J C	J C	Captain	COLONIAL	Imperial Light Horse			1899-11-05
12513	Kohler	George Eric	G E	Private	UDF	Imperial Light Horse	South African Infantry Corps	1st	1941-12-31
13356	Leppan	Hilton Angus	H A	Captain	UDF	Imperial Light Horse	South African Infantry Corps	1st	1944-03-25
13467	Levithan	Arthur	A	Corporal	UDF	Imperial Light Horse	South African Infantry Corps	1st	1942-01-09
13837	Lord	Charles Edward	C E	Private	UDF	Imperial Light Horse	South African Infantry Corps	1st	1941-12-31
13885	Lourenco	Antonie	A	Private	UDF	Imperial Light Horse	South African Infantry Corps	1st	1941-12-31
13968	Lowe	Roger Lawrence	R L	Private	UDF	Imperial Light Horse	South African Infantry Corps	1st	1942-12-02
14022	Lugg	Percy Winchcombe	P W	Private	UDF	Imperial Light Horse	South African Infantry Corps	1st	1942-06-22
14892	Mance	John Joseph	J J	Private	UDF	Imperial Light Horse	South African Infantry Corps	1st	1941-12-31
14893	Mance	Robert	R	Corporal	UDF	Imperial Light Horse	South African Infantry Corps		1942-12-29
49553	Mapleton	Harold Sugden	H S	Trooper	COLONIAL	Imperial Light Horse			1900-04-16
49554	Marshall	J	J	Trooper	COLONIAL	Imperial Light Horse			1900-07-07
15294	Martin	Rupert George	R G	Private	UDF	Imperial Light Horse	South African Infantry Corps	1st	1941-12-19
15998	McGRATH	John Francis	J F	Lance Corporal	UDF	Imperial Light Horse	South African Infantry Corps	1st	1941-12-31
16361	Mellet	Charles Pitrus	C P	Sergeant	UDF	Imperial Light Horse	South African Infantry Corps	1st	1941-12-31
16463	Mey	Michael Jacobus	M J	Corporal	UDF	Imperial Light Horse	South African Infantry Corps	1st	1941-07-28
17351	Moolman	Petrus Lavras	P L	Corporal	UDF	Imperial Light Horse	South African Infantry Corps	1st	1944-01-19
49555	Moore	George Herbert	G H	Corporal	COLONIAL	Imperial Light Horse			1900-01-06
18123	Murray	Rodney	R	Private	UDF	Imperial Light Horse	South African Infantry Corps	1st	1941-12-31
18253	Myerson	Stanley Sydney	S S	Sergeant	UDF	Imperial Light Horse	South African Infantry Corps	1st	1942-08-15
18500	Nel	Daniel Andries	D A	Private	UDF	Imperial Light Horse	South African Infantry Corps	1st Bn.	1942-06-07
19254	O'donnell	Patrick Rhodes	P R	Warrant Officer Class II	UDF	Imperial Light Horse	South African Infantry Corps		1942-07-13