• The South African Light Horse regiment of the British Army were raised in Cape Colony in 1899 and disbanded in 1907. The commanding officer tasked with...
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    Johannesburg Light Horse Regiment (JLHR, formerly the Light Horse Regiment, LHR), is a reserve armoured car reconnaissance unit of the South African Army. The...
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    Australian Light Horse were mounted troops with characteristics of both cavalry and mounted infantry, who served in the Second Boer War and World War...
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    addition to the Imperial Light Horse) were the South African Light Horse, Rimington's Guides, Kitchener's Horse and the Imperial Light Infantry.[citation needed]...
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  • guidance South African Light Horse, a former British Army unit established in the Cape Colony during the Boer War South Alberta Light Horse, a reserve...
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    Winston Churchill. Hachette UK. p. 92. ISBN 978-0786740154. The South African Light Horse, having no baggage train and living largely off the country, were...
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    Jack Churchill (1880–1947) (category South African Light Horse officers)
    the Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars in 1898. He served in the South African Light Horse alongside his war correspondent brother in the Second Boer War...
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    Winston Churchill (category South African Light Horse officers)
    East Africa. His escape attracted much publicity. In January 1900, he briefly rejoined the army as a lieutenant in the South African Light Horse regiment...
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    Julian Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy (category South African Light Horse officers)
    lieutenant colonel and tasked with raising and commanding the South African Light Horse during the Second Boer War. Byng thereafter served on the front...
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    the British South African Light Horse, was initially equipped with Ferret scout cars. Following the aggressive nature of South African reconnaissance doctrine...
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