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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
5949 Dove Eric Irvine E I Private UDF Natal Mounted Rifles South African Infantry Corps 1942-06-07
30104 Dossena Paul Onre P O Lance Corporal SADF Natal Mounted Rifles 1977-09-13
5861 Domoney Clarence Douglas Haig C D H Trooper UDF Natal Mounted Rifles South African Infantry Corps 1944-06-11
5358 De Lange Nicholaas Johannes N J Corporal UDF Natal Mounted Rifles South African Infantry Corps 1st Bn. 1944-07-17
5165 Davison James Wright J W Trooper UDF Natal Mounted Rifles South African Infantry Corps 1943-12-20
4799 Cummings Arthur James A J Trooper UDF Natal Mounted Rifles South African Infantry Corps 1st Bn. 1944-09-03
4714 Crookes Frank Leslie F L Private UDF Natal Mounted Rifles South African Infantry Corps 1st 1942-10-13
29872 Crisp Arthur Jackson A J Trooper COLONIAL Natal Mounted Rifles South West Africa Police Counter-Insurgency Wing: Ops-K Division (KOEVOET) 1906-08-29
49568 Crickmore J R J R Trooper COLONIAL Natal Mounted Rifles 1899-11-30
4378 Constable John Albert J A Private UDF Natal Mounted Rifles South African Infantry Corps 1942-10-23
4335 Compton Ernest Victor E V Trooper UDF Natal Mounted Rifles South African Infantry Corps 1st Bn. 1944-09-09
4254 Collett Edwin Bernard E B Trooper UDF Natal Mounted Rifles South African Infantry Corps 1944-05-23
4202 Cohen Nathan Anthony N A Trooper UDF Natal Mounted Rifles South African Infantry Corps 1st Bn. 1944-07-06
29766 Clements Sidney Tom S T Trooper COLONIAL Natal Mounted Rifles 102 Battalion 1906-06-28
3966 Clayton Arthur A Warrant Officer Class II UDF Natal Mounted Rifles South African Infantry Corps 1945-01-11
49566 Clapham W J W J Lieutenant COLONIAL Natal Mounted Rifles 1899-10-30
3788 Chowles John Locke J L Private UDF Natal Mounted Rifles South African Infantry Corps 1st Bn. 1942-06-07
3584 Chambers Frank Eric F E Private UDF Natal Mounted Rifles South African Infantry Corps 1st Bn. 1944-09-27
3489 Carver George Edward G E Corporal UDF Natal Mounted Rifles South African Infantry Corps 1944-06-12
3475 Carter Leonard Antony Eyles L A E Private UDF Natal Mounted Rifles South African Infantry Corps 1st 1941-07-29
3308 Campbell Hugh H Lance Corporal UDF Natal Mounted Rifles South African Infantry Corps 1942-07-17
3140 Butcher Howard Montague H M Lieutenant UDF Natal Mounted Rifles South African Infantry Corps 1944-06-10
3080 Burns George Clark G C Private UDF Natal Mounted Rifles South African Infantry Corps 1st Bn. 1941-05-14
29638 Bull Walter George W G Trooper COLONIAL Natal Mounted Rifles Northern Transvaal Command Provost Unit 1906-05-15
2809 Brown Maurice James Edward M J E Private UDF Natal Mounted Rifles South African Infantry Corps 1940-07-30
2819 Brown Ronald Coventry R C Private UDF Natal Mounted Rifles South African Infantry Corps 1st Bn. 1942-06-07
2413 Boyd Reginald R Sergeant UDF Natal Mounted Rifles South African Infantry Corps 1st Bn. 1944-08-12
1917 Blanckenberg Eduard E Trooper UDF Natal Mounted Rifles South African Infantry Corps 1944-06-27
1366 Beal-Preston Trevor Leslie T L Private UDF Natal Mounted Rifles South African Infantry Corps 1st 1942-06-09
1034 Banham Peter William Blenkin P W B Captain UDF Natal Mounted Rifles South African Infantry Corps 1944-07-26
974 Balcomb Alfred Vernon A V Private UDF Natal Mounted Rifles South African Infantry Corps 1940-07-24
711 Ashby Skidmore Fowler S F Private UDF Natal Mounted Rifles South African Infantry Corps 1942-11-28
49567 Ash V G V G Trooper COLONIAL Natal Mounted Rifles 1900-01-07