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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
100	Adair	Terence Miles	T M	Private	UDF	Imperial Light Horse	South African Infantry Corps	1st	1941-12-31
113	Adams	Cecil Melville	C M	Corporal	UDF	Imperial Light Horse	South African Infantry Corps	1st	1941-12-31
49327	Albrecht	Henry	H	Trooper	COLONIAL	Imperial Light Horse			1900-01-06
49538	Atherstone	Edwin Ogilvy	E O	Corporal	COLONIAL	Imperial Light Horse			1901-07-07
49539	Atlay	Charles Cecil	C C	Trooper	COLONIAL	Imperial Light Horse			1900-03-03
49540	Bain	Wallace	W	Trooper	COLONIAL	Imperial Light Horse			1900-05-20
1121	Barnard	Hertzog	H	Private	UDF	Imperial Light Horse	South African Infantry Corps	1st	1941-12-31
1161	Barnes	Rex Llewellyn	R L	Private	UDF	Imperial Light Horse	South African Infantry Corps	1st	1941-12-31
1309	Batham	Lawrence Percival	L P	Private	UDF	Imperial Light Horse	South African Infantry Corps	1st	1941-12-31
1325	Baum	Harold	H	Private	UDF	Imperial Light Horse	South African Infantry Corps	1st	1941-12-31
1326	Baumann	Ludwig Friedrich	L F	Private	UDF	Imperial Light Horse	South African Infantry Corps	1st	1941-12-31
1435	Beddy	Norman Hinton	N H	Private	UDF	Imperial Light Horse	South African Infantry Corps	1st	1941-12-31
49541	Benson	H Cyril	H C	Sergeant	COLONIAL	Imperial Light Horse			1899-12-07
1645	Bernstein	Sydney William	S W	Private	UDF	Imperial Light Horse	South African Infantry Corps	1st	1941-12-31
1957	Bloch	Arthur Stanley	A S	Private	UDF	Imperial Light Horse	South African Infantry Corps	1st	1941-12-31
1987	Bloxam	Richard William	R W	Private	UDF	Imperial Light Horse	South African Infantry Corps	1st	1941-05-09
49542	Borsey	George	G	Trooper	COLONIAL	Imperial Light Horse			1900-05-13
2303	Bothma	George Steytler	G S	Private	UDF	Imperial Light Horse	South African Infantry Corps	1st	1941-12-31
2314	Boucher	Charles James	C J	Trooper	UDF	Imperial Light Horse	South African Infantry Corps		1943-05-10
49543	Bouchier	Arthur	A	Trooper	COLONIAL	Imperial Light Horse			1900-07-07
2429	Boyes	William Maddison	W M	Major	UDF	Imperial Light Horse	South African Infantry Corps		1947-05-20
49452	Brabant	A E	A E	Lieutenant	COLONIAL	Imperial Light Horse			1899-11-03
2773	Brown	Henry Charles William	H C W	Corporal	UDF	Imperial Light Horse	South African Infantry Corps	1st	1941-12-31
2916	Bryington	Arthur Francis	A F	Corporal	UDF	Imperial Light Horse	South African Infantry Corps	1st	1941-04-03
3048	Burke	Thomas Francis	T F	Private	UDF	Imperial Light Horse	South African Infantry Corps	1st	1941-12-31
49544	Burrows	William	W	Farrier Sergeant	COLONIAL	Imperial Light Horse			1901-01-30
49545	Cameron	George Gordon	G G	Lance Corporal	COLONIAL	Imperial Light Horse			1900-01-06
49546	Campbell	Charles	C	Trooper	COLONIAL	Imperial Light Horse			1900-01-23
49547	Carter	James Carter English	J C E	Trooper	COLONIAL	Imperial Light Horse			1900-01-22
4271	Collins	Clifford Desmond	C D	Private	UDF	Imperial Light Horse	South African Infantry Corps	1st	1941-12-31
4280	Collins	James Daniel	J D	Private	UDF	Imperial Light Horse	South African Infantry Corps	1st	1942-01-01
49548	Cribb	Ronald Henry	R H	Trooper	COLONIAL	Imperial Light Horse			1900-11-07
49534	Curry	William Michael	W M	Captain	COLONIAL	Imperial Light Horse			1900-07-07
4875	Dadd	Justian Charles	J C	Sergeant	UDF	Imperial Light Horse	South African Infantry Corps	1st	1941-04-03
41417	Dallamore	Laurence Westerford	L W	Trooper	UDF	Imperial Light Horse		2nd Permanent Bty.	1922-03-11
4969	Daniels	Adrian Alexander	A A	Private	UDF	Imperial Light Horse	South African Infantry Corps	1st	1941-12-31
5017	Dashwood	Alan Stanley	A S	Lance Corporal	UDF	Imperial Light Horse	South African Infantry Corps	1st	1941-12-31
5286	De Jager	Philip Lodewyk	P L	Private	UDF	Imperial Light Horse	South African Infantry Corps	1st	1941-12-31
5359	De Lange	Ralph George	R G	Private	UDF	Imperial Light Horse	South African Infantry Corps	1st	1941-12-31
5827	Dobson	George Henry	G H	Private	UDF	Imperial Light Horse	South African Infantry Corps		1947-06-27
6107	Du Plessis	Vivien Foch	V F	Private	UDF	Imperial Light Horse	South African Infantry Corps	1st	1941-12-31
6129	Du Preez	Dennis Hendry Stephen	D H S	Private	UDF	Imperial Light Horse	South African Infantry Corps		1942-06-29
6485	Edwards	John Henry	J H	Private	UDF	Imperial Light Horse	South African Infantry Corps	1st	1942-01-07
6821	Evans	Trevor Emlyn	T E	Private	UDF	Imperial Light Horse	South African Infantry Corps	1st	1941-12-31
7026	Ferguson	Arthur Peter	A P	Private	UDF	Imperial Light Horse	South African Infantry Corps	1st	1941-12-31
7501	Fox	John	J	Private	UDF	Imperial Light Horse	South African Infantry Corps	1st	1941-12-31
7517	Frame	Jack	J	Private	UDF	Imperial Light Horse	South African Infantry Corps	1st	1941-12-31
7715	Frost	James Cornelius Dawson	J C D	Private	UDF	Imperial Light Horse	South African Infantry Corps	1st	1941-12-31
7736	Fulcher	Henry Arthur	H A	Private	UDF	Imperial Light Horse	South African Infantry Corps	1st	1941-12-31
7760	Fulton	Thomas Herbert	T H	Private	UDF	Imperial Light Horse	South African Infantry Corps	1st Bn.	1942-05-22