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).
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.
