Category: 1st Battalion, Victorian Mounted Rifles
Categories: Colonial Military Force, Victoria | Australian Army, Second Boer War
The 1st Battalion, Victorian Mounted Rifles was a mounted infantry unit of the Victorian Military Force and was commanded in South Africa in 1899 by Lieutenant Colonel Duncan McLeish. Many of the troopers transferred to the 2nd Australian Commonwealth Horse, under the command of McLeish for a second tour in the Second Boer War in 1902.
Person Profiles (7)
George Bell
29 Nov 1872 Sale, Victoria (Australia) - 05 Mar 1944
George Chomley
23 Dec 1876 Avoca, Victoria, Australia - 30 Oct 1965
John Hoad
25 Jan 1856 Goulburn, New South Wales (Australia) - 06 Oct 1911
Edward Mawley
1858 - 1931
Duncan McLeish
1859 Yea, Victoria, Australia - 1943
Ormond Pleasents
10 Nov 1882 Euroa, Victoria (Australia) - 30 Sep 1946
William Reay
10 Nov 1858 Balmain, New South Wales (Australia) - 11 Nov 1929
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