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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
19303	Oldring	George Henry	G H	Captain	UDF	Imperial Light Horse	South African Infantry Corps	1st	1941-03-03
19731	Pass	Michael	M	Private	UDF	Imperial Light Horse	South African Infantry Corps	1st	1941-12-31
20014	Peters	Aubrey Montague Vincent	A M V	Private	UDF	Imperial Light Horse	South African Infantry Corps	1st	1941-12-31
20144	Phelines	Dennis Charles	D C	Private	UDF	Imperial Light Horse	South African Infantry Corps	1st	1941-12-31
20166	Phillips	Denis Stanley	D S	Lance Corporal	UDF	Imperial Light Horse	South African Infantry Corps		1940-09-14
20519	Porter	Leonard Scott Metcalfe	L S M	Private	UDF	Imperial Light Horse	South African Infantry Corps	1st	1941-12-21
20737	Prinsloo	Mattheus Johannes	M J	Private	UDF	Imperial Light Horse	South African Infantry Corps	1st	1941-12-31
20745	Prior	Alaric Clive	A C	Private	UDF	Imperial Light Horse	South African Infantry Corps	1st	1941-12-31
20944	Radull	John James	J J	Private	UDF	Imperial Light Horse	South African Infantry Corps	1st	1941-12-31
49537	Ralston	James	J	Lieutenant	COLONIAL	Imperial Light Horse			1901-03-22
21086	Randell	Eric Nowell	E N	Lance Corporal	UDF	Imperial Light Horse	South African Infantry Corps	1st	1941-12-31
21342	Resnik	Morris	M	Private	UDF	Imperial Light Horse	South African Infantry Corps	1st	1941-12-31
21581	Roberts	George Hilton	G H	Private	UDF	Imperial Light Horse	South African Infantry Corps	1st	1941-12-31
49556	Robins	Arthur Mockeredge	A M	Corporal	COLONIAL	Imperial Light Horse			1900-01-06
21664	Robins	Stuart Harrison	S H	Corporal	UDF	Imperial Light Horse	South African Infantry Corps		1945-06-25
21714	Roderick	Richard Thomas	R T	Private	UDF	Imperial Light Horse	South African Infantry Corps	1st	1941-12-31
21909	Rossouw	Karl	K	Private	UDF	Imperial Light Horse	South African Infantry Corps	1st	1941-12-31
21945	Roven	Louis Charles	L C	Corporal	UDF	Imperial Light Horse	South African Infantry Corps	1st	1946-01-28
21957	Rowe	Dennis Douglas	D D	Private	UDF	Imperial Light Horse	South African Infantry Corps	1st	1941-12-31
22054	Rupert	Anthony Edward	A E	Sergeant	UDF	Imperial Light Horse	South African Infantry Corps	1st	1941-12-31
22245	Sangster	Henry Hackney	H H	Sergeant	UDF	Imperial Light Horse		2nd	1915-06-12
22325	Sawyer	Colin Campbell	C C	Lance Corporal	UDF	Imperial Light Horse	South African Infantry Corps	1st	1942-06-07
22398	Schmidt	Vernon Gerald	V G	Lance Corporal	UDF	Imperial Light Horse	South African Infantry Corps	1st	1943-12-08
22404	Schneider	Louis	L	Private	UDF	Imperial Light Horse	South African Infantry Corps	1st	1941-12-31
22417	Schoeman	Gideon	G	Private	UDF	Imperial Light Horse	South African Infantry Corps	1st	1941-12-31
22481	Schult	William Joseph (bill)	W J	Lance Corporal	UDF	Imperial Light Horse	South African Infantry Corps	1st	1941-12-31
49557	Shortt	Arthur	A	Trooper	COLONIAL	Imperial Light Horse			1900-11-23
23430	Smith	Alexander Mather	A M	Corporal	UDF	Imperial Light Horse	South African Infantry Corps		1944-09-27
23446	Smith	Cyril Brown	C B	Private	UDF	Imperial Light Horse	South African Infantry Corps	1st	1942-06-19
23561	Smith	James Raymond	J R	Private	UDF	Imperial Light Horse	South African Infantry Corps	1st	1940-08-19
23920	Squire	John Henry	J H	Private	UDF	Imperial Light Horse	South African Infantry Corps		1945-09-17
24150	Steventon	Richard Edgar	R E	Private	UDF	Imperial Light Horse	South African Infantry Corps	1st	1941-12-31
24218	Steyn	Peter Jacobus De Wet	P J D W	Corporal	UDF	Imperial Light Horse	South African Infantry Corps	1st	1942-06-07
24650	Symington	James Revell	J R	Lance Corporal	UDF	Imperial Light Horse	South African Infantry Corps	1st	1941-12-31
25243	Tidmarsh	Percy	P	Private	UDF	Imperial Light Horse	South African Infantry Corps	1st	1941-12-31
25455	Treharne	Eric Edward	E E	Private	UDF	Imperial Light Horse	South African Infantry Corps	1st	1941-12-31
25463	Tren	Ronald Hyman	R H	Private	UDF	Imperial Light Horse	South African Infantry Corps		1940-07-28
49558	Turpin	Clifford Arthur	C A	Lance Corporal	COLONIAL	Imperial Light Horse			1901-03-24
26429	Unknown Soldier	Unknown Soldier			UDF	Imperial Light Horse	South African Infantry Corps		1941-12-31
26430	Unknown Soldier	Unknown Soldier			UDF	Imperial Light Horse	South African Infantry Corps		1941-12-31
26509	Van Biljon	Alwyn Arthur David	A A D	Private	UDF	Imperial Light Horse	South African Infantry Corps	1st	1941-12-31
26551	Van Den Heever	Daniel Johannes	D J	Corporal	UDF	Imperial Light Horse	South African Infantry Corps	1st	1941-12-31
26744	Van Der Westhuizen	Jan Johannes Matthys	J J M	Private	UDF	Imperial Light Horse	South African Infantry Corps	1st	1942-05-10
26822	Van Heerden	Francois	F	Sergeant	UDF	Imperial Light Horse	South African Infantry Corps	1st	1941-04-03
27234	Venske	Percy Eithel Herman	P E H	Private	UDF	Imperial Light Horse	South African Infantry Corps	1st	1941-12-31
27480	Von Linsingen	Frederick William Berry	F W B	Corporal	UDF	Imperial Light Horse	South African Infantry Corps	1st	1941-12-31
27555	Waite	Edgar Victor	E V	Private	UDF	Imperial Light Horse	South African Infantry Corps	1st	1941-12-31
27785	Wasserfall	Clifford William	C W	Bandsman	UDF	Imperial Light Horse	South African Infantry Corps	1st	1942-06-16
49559	Wellstead	Harry Edwin	H E	Sergeant	COLONIAL	Imperial Light Horse			1900-11-19
49560	Wheeler	Felix	F	Trooper	COLONIAL	Imperial Light Horse			1900-01-01