Units & Contingents in the Boer War

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COLONIAL CONTINGENTS in the BOER WAR (2nd Anglo-Boer War)


A souvenir booklet from 1899 of the departure of the Victorian & Tasmanian contingents. Note the Red Ensign on the cover. Note also the right hand turn-up on the slouch hats of the Tasmanians.

NSW Units, Boer War

NSW Lanc.	New South Wales Lancers
NSWAMC	New South Wales Army Medical Corps
'A'NSWMR	'A' Squadron NSW Mounted Rifles
NSWInf.	New South Wales Infantry (later "E" Squadron. 1NSWMR)
1Aust.H	First Australian Horse
'A'RAA(NSW)	'A' Bty. Royal Australian Artillery (NSW)
1NSWMR	First New South Wales Mounted Rifles
NSWCB	New South Wales Citizens' Bushmen
NSWIB	New South Wales Imperial Bushmen
2NSWMR	Second New South Wales Mounted Rifles
3NSWMR	Third New South Wales Mounted Rifles
3NSWIB	Third New South Wales Imperial Bushmen
1ACH(NSW)	First Battalion Australian Commonwealth Horse (NSW)
CAMC(NSW)	Commonwealth Army Medical Corps (NSW)
3ACH(NSW)	Third Battalion Australian Commonwealth Horse (NSW)
5ACH(NSW)	Fifth Battalion Australian Commonwealth Horse (NSW)
SSO(NSW)	Special Service Officers (NSW)

Victorian Units, Boer War

1VMI	First Victorian (Infantry and Mounted Infantry) Contingent
2VMR	Second Victorian (Mounted Rifles) Contingent
3VB	Third Victorian (Bushmen's) Contingent
Vic.Nurses	Victorian Nursing Sisters
4VIB	Fourth Victorian (Imperial) Contingent
5VMR	Fifth Victorian (Mounted Rifles) Contingent
Scot.H	Recruits for Scottish Horse
SSO(Vic.)	Special Service Officers (Victoria)
2ACH(Vic.)	Second Battalion Australian Commonwealth Horse (Vic.)
CAMC(Vic.)	Commonwealth Army Medical Corps (Vic.)
4ACH(Vic)	Fourth Battalion Australian Commonwealth Horse (Vic.)
6ACH(Vic)	Sixth Battalion Australian Commonwealth Horse (Vic.)

Queensland Units, Boer War

1QMI	First (Queensland Mounted Infantry) Contingent
2QMI	Second (Queensland Mounted Infantry) Contingent
3QMI	Third (Queensland Mounted Infantry) Contingent
4QIB	Fourth (Queensland Imperial Bushmen) Contingent
5QIB	Fifth (Queensland Imperial Bushmen) Contingent
6QIB	Sixth (Queensland Imperial Bushmen) Contingent
SSO(Q)	Special Service Officers (Queensland)
1ACH(Q)	First Battalion Australian Commonwealth Horse (Qld.)
CAMC(Q)	Commonwealth Army Medical Corps (Qld.)
3ACH(Q)	Third Battalion Australian Commonwealth Horse (Qld.)
7ACH(Q)	Seventh Battalion Australian Commonwealth Horse (Qld.)

South Australian Units, Boer War

1SAMR	First South Australian (Mounted Rifles) Contingent
2SAMR	Second South Australian (Mounted Rifles) Contingent
3SACB	Third South Australian (Citizens' Bushmen) Contingent
4SAIB	Fourth South Australian (Imperial Bushmen) Contingent
5SAIB	Fifth South Australian (Imperial) Contingent
6SAIB	Sixth South Australian (Imperial) Contingent
SSO(SA)	Special Service Officers (South Australia)
2ACH(SA)	Second Battalion Australian Commonwealth Horse (SA)
AAMC(SA)	Australian Army Medical Corps (SA)
4ACH(SA)	Fourth Battalion Australian Commonwealth Horse (SA)
8ACH(SA)	Eighth Battalion Australian Commonwealth Horse (SA)

Western Australian Units, Boer War

1WAMI	First Western Australian (Mounted Infantry) Contingent
2WAMI	Second Western Australian (Mounted Infantry) Contingent
3WAB	Third Western Australian (Bushmen's) Contingent
4WAMI	Fourth Western Australian (Mounted Infantry) Contingent
5WAMI	Fifth Western Australian (Mounted Infantry) Contingent
6WAMI	Sixth Western Australian (Mounted Infantry) Contingent
2ACH(WA)	Second Battalion Australian Commonwealth Horse (Western Australia)
AAMC(WA)	Australian Army Medical Corps (Western Australia)
4ACH(WA)	Fourth Battalion Australian Commonwealth Horse (Western Australia)
8ACH(WA)	Eighth Battalion Australian Commonwealth Horse (Western Australia)

Tasmanian Units Boer War

1TMI	First Tasmanian (Mounted Infantry) Contingent
2TB	Second Tasmanian (Bushmen) Contingent
3TIB	Third Tasmanian (Imperial Bushmen) Contingent
4TIB	Fourth Tasmanian (Imperial Bushmen) Contingent
SSO(Tas.)	Special Service Officers (Tasmania)
1ACH(Tas.)	First Battalion Australian Commonwealth Horse (Tasmania.)
3ACH(Tas.)	Third Battalion Australian Commonwealth Horse (Tasmania.)
8ACH(Tas.)	Eighth Battalion Australian Commonwealth Horse (Tasmania.)

The top part of this list is not necessarily 100% complete and does not contain the Units formed in South Africa that may have contained Australians & New Zealanders, of which the Bushveldt Carbineers is the best known. See below for that list.

Australia

New South Wales
- 1st Australian Horse (New South Wales)
- New South Wales Artillery
- New South Wales Field Hospital and Bearer Company
- New South Wales Mounted Infantry
- 1st New South Wales Mounted Rifles
- 3rd New South Wales Mounted Rifles
- 1st New South Wales Bushmen
- 6th Imperial Bushmen (4th New South Wales Contingent)
- 3rd New South Wales Bushmen
- New South Wales Lancers
Victoria
- 1st 2nd, 5th Victorian Mounted Rifles and Mounted Infantry
- 3rd Victorian Contingent also designated as Victorian Bushmen
- Australian Bushmen Army Medical Corps
Queensland
- Queensland Mounted Infantry
- 3rd Queensland Bushmen
- 4th Queensland Imperial Bushmen
Tasmania
- Tasmanian Mounted Infantry
- First or Cameron's Tasmanian Contingent
- 1st Tasmanian Bushmen
- 1st Tasmanian Imperial Bushmen
- 2nd Tasmanian Imperial Bushmen
- 4th Regiment Imperial Bushmen
West Australia
- 1st West Australian Mounted Infantry
- 1st and 2nd West Australian Contingents
- 3rd West Australian (Bushmen) Contingent
- 4th West Australian Contingent (West Australian Imperial Bushmen)
- 5th and 6th West Australian Contingents
South Australia
- South Australian Mounted Rifles
- 3rd South Australian (Bushmen) Contingent
- 4th South Australian (Imperial Bushmen) Contingent
- 5th and 6th Australian Contingent
- Royal Australian Artillery
- Australian Army Medical Corps
- Doyle's Scouts
- Intelligence Department
AFTER FEDERATION
- 1st Commonwealth Horse
- 2nd thru 8th Australian Commonwealth Horse

New Zealand

1st, 2nd, 3rd 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th Contingents consisting of New Zealand Mounted Rifles and one Hotchkiss Gun Detachment
- New Zealand Battery
- New Zealand Mounted Infantry

Canada

Canadian Artillery:
- "C ", "D" and "E" batteries
Royal Canadian Dragoons
The Royal Canadian Regiment of Infantry
The Royal Canadian Mounted Rifles
2nd Regiment Canadian Mounted Rifles
Lord Strathcona's Corps (Horse)

India

Lumsden's Horse

Ceylon

Ceylon Mounted Infantry

West Indies

West India Regiment

British Units

Naval Brigade
Royal Navy
Royal Marines
Cavalry Household Cavalry
1st King's Dragoon Guards
6th Carabineers
2nd Scots Greys
Scots Guards,
1st & 2nd Life Guards,
1st & 2nd Royal Horse Guards (Blues)
6th lnniskilling Dragoons
5th Royal Irish Lancers
9th Queen's Lancers
12th Prince of Wales Royal Lancers
16th (Queen's) Lancers
17th (Duke of Cambridge's Own) Lancers
3rd Hussars (King's Own)
7th Hussars ( Queen's Own)
13th Hussars (King's Royal Irish)
10th Hussars (Prince of Wales's Own)
13th Hussars
14th (King's) Hussars
18th (Victoria Mary, Princess of Wales's Own) Hussars
19th (Queen Alexandra's Own Royal) Hussars
20th Hussars Imperial Yeomanry
1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, l0th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th, Royal Artillery (Horse Field Garrison)
Elswick Battery
Honorable Artillery Company
Natal Hotchkiss Detachment
Royal Artillery Mounted Rifles
Royal Dragoons,
2nd Dragoons (Royal Scots Greys)
6th (Inniskilling) Dragoon Guards,
1st (King's) Dragoon Guards
2nd ( Queen's Bays) Dragoon Guards
3rd (Prince of Wales's) Dragoon Guards
5th ( Princess Charlotte of Wales's)
Dragoon Guards
6th (Carabineers) Dragoon Guards
7th (Princess Royal's)
Devonshire Regiment,
1st & 2nd Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
2nd Royal Irish Fusiliers
1st Royal Irish Regiment
1st King's Royal Rifle Corps (60th Rifles)
2nd Kings Royal Rifle Corps
3rd King's Royal Rifle Corps
4th King's Royal Rifle Corps
9th King's Rifle Corps
2nd Royal Irish Rifles
Royal Dublin Fusiliers,
1st & 2nd2nd East Kent Regiment (The Buffs)
2nd Royal West Kent Regiment
(The Queen's Own) Border Regiment,
1st Coldstream Guards,
1st & 2nd Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry,
2nd Grenadier Guards,
2nd & 3rd Scots Guards,
1st The Royal Scots,
1st & 3rd West Surrey,
2nd (The Queen's) Northumberland Fusiliers
Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders,
1st Royal Fusiliers,
2nd King's Liverpool Regiment,
The Lincolnshire Regiment,
2nd The King's Own Liverpool Regiment,
1st Manchester Regiment,
1st & 2ndDuke of Cambridge's Own Middlesex Regiment,
2nd Suffolk Regiment,
1st Bedfordshire Regiment,
2nd Leicestershire Regiment,
1st Yorkshire Regiment,
1st East Yorkshire Regiment
2nd West Yorkshire Regiment,
2nd Lancashire Fusiliers
2nd Royal Lancaster Regiment
Royal Scots Fusiliers,
2nd Cheshire Regiment,
2nd Royal Welsh Fusiliers
South Wales Borderers,
2nd King's Own Scottish Borderers,
1st Shropshire Light infantry,
2nd (King's) Somersetshire Light Infantry
2nd (Prince Albert's) Scottish Rifles
1st Scottish Rifles
2nd ( The Cameronians) Scottish Rifles
4th Gloucestershire Regiment,
1st & 2nd Worcestershire Regiment,
1st & 2nd East Surrey Regiment,
2ndDuke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
West Riding Regiment,
1st (Duke of Wellington's) Royal Sussex,
1st Royal Warwickshire Regiment,
2nd Hampshire Regiment,
2nd Dorsetshire Regiment,
2nd Welsh Regiment,
1st Royal Welsh Fusiliers,
1st Black Watch,
2nd Bn (Royal Highlanders)
Oxford Light Infantry
Essex Regiment,
1st & 2ndDerbyshire Regiment
1st (Sherwood Foresters)
1st Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
1st East Lancashire Regimen
1st South Lancashire Regiment
Royal Berkshire
2nd King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry,
2nd King's Shropshire Light Infantry,
2nd King's Royal Rifles
Wiltshire Regiment,
2nd (Duke of Edinburgh's) North Staffordshire Regiment,
2nd South Staffordshire,
1st & 4th York and Lancaster Regiment,
1st Durham Light Infantry,
1st Seaforth Highlanders,
2nd Ross-Shire Buffs,
The Duke of Albany's Gordon Highlanders,
1st & 2ndRoyal Irish Rifles Connaught Rangers
1st Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
1st Leincester Regiment,
2nd Royal Munster Fusiliers,
1st & 2ndNorfolk Regiment,
2nd Northamptonshire Regiment,
2nd Northumberland Fusiliers,
2nd Oxfordshire Light Infantry,
1st Highland Light infantry,
1st The Prince Consort's own Rifle Brigade,
1st Rifle Brigade,
2nd Mounted Infantry
Alderson's Mounted infantry
Amphlett's Mounted Infantry
Hannay's Mounted Infantry
Hickman's Mounted Infantry
Martyr's Mounted Infantry
Thorneycroft's Mounted Infantry
Composite Regiment Mounted Infantry
1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 15th, 17th, 18th (Sharpshooters),
19th (Paget's Horse),
20th (Roughriders),
21st, 22nd, 23rd, 24th, 25th, 26th Burma Mounted Infantry
Gough's Mounted Infantry
Malta Mounted Infantry Mounted Pioneers
Medical
Royal Army Medical Corps
Royal Army Nursing Service
Army Service Corps
Army Veterinary Department
Army Ordnance Department
Army Chaplain's Department
Divisional Scouting Corps
Military Police
Corps of Military Mounted Police
Imperial Bearer Company
City of London Imperial Volunteers
Army Post Office Corps

Units raised in South Africa

Aberdeen Town Guard
Adelaide District Mounted Troops
Ashburner's Light Horse
Barkly West Town Guard
Bayly's Horse
Beaconsfield Town Guard
Beaufort West Town Guard
Bechuanaland Police
Bechuanaland Rifle Volunteers
Bechuanaland Protectorate Regiment
Bedford District Mounted Troops
Beddy's Scouts
Bethune's Mounted Infantry
Border Mounted Police
Border Mounted Rifles
Border Horse
Border Scouts
Brabant's Horse
Brett's Scouts
British South African Police
Bushmanland Borderers
Bush Veldt Carbineers
Byng's Scouts
Canadian Scouts (including over 100 Aussies)
Cape Colony Cyclist Corps
Cape Colony Defence Force
Cape Medical Staff Corps
Cape Garrison Artillery
Cape infantry
Cape Mounted Rifles
Cape Mounted Police
Cape Railway
Capetown Highlanders
Ceres Scouts
1st City Volunteer's (Marshall's Horse)
City of Grahamstown Volunteers
Clifford's Scouts
Colonial Light Horse
Commander in Chiefs Bodyguard
Corps of Cattle Rangers
Cradock Town Guard
Cullinan's Horse
Damant's Horse
De Aar Town Guard
De Beers Maxim Battery
Dennison's Scouts
Diamond Fields Horse
Diamond Fields Artillery
District Military Police
District Mounted Troops
Dordrecht Dictrict Volunteer Guard
Dordrecht Wodehouse Yeomanry
Driscoll's scouts
Duke of Edinburgh's Own Volunteer Rifles
Durban Light Infantry
Eastern Province Horse
Eastern Transvaal Scouts
East Griqualand Mounted Rifle Volunteers
East Griqualand Field Force
Edwards's Scouts
Farmers' Guard
Fraserburg District Mounted Troops
French's Scouts
Frontier Light Horse
Frontier Mounted Rifles
Geoghegan's Scouts
Gorringe's Flying Column
Heidelberg Volunteers and Scouts
Herschel Special Police
Herschel Native Police
Imperial Light Horse
Imperial Light Infantry
Indwe Town Guard
Jamestown Town Guard
Jansenville District Mounted Troops
Jansenville Town Guard
Johannesburg Mounted Rifles
Johannesburg Police
Kaffrarian Rifles
Kenhardt Town Guard
Keeley's Vryburg Farmer's Association
Kimberley Light Horse
Kimberley Regiment
Kimberley Town Guard
Kimberley Mounted Corps
Kitchener's Horse
Kitchener's Fighting Scouts
Klipdam Town Guard
Knysna Rangers
Kofflefontein Defence Force
Komga Mounted Infantry
Kroonstad Scouts
Laingsburg Town Guard
Loch's Horse
Lower Rhodesian Volunteers
Loyal Burgher Corps
Loxton's Horse
Lydenburg Civil Mounted Rifles
Maritzani Mounted Irregulars
Murray's Horse
Mafeking Town Guard
Menne's Scouts
Midland Mounted Rifles
Middelburg Town Guard
Molteno Town Guard
Montagu Town Guard
Montmorency's Scouts
Morley's Scouts
Mossel Bay Town Guard
Namaqualand Border Scouts
Narmaqualand District Mounted Police
Namaqualand Town Guard
National Scouts
Natal Volunteer Field Artillery
Natal Volunteers Police and Guides
Natal Bridge Guards
Natal Carbineers
Natal Mounted Police
Natal Mounted Rifles
Natal Naval Artillery
Natal Police
Natal Royal Rifles
Natal Volunteer Composite Regiment
Nesbitt's Horse
New England Mounted Rifles
Orange River Colony Police
Orange River Colony Volunteers
Orpen's Horse
Oudtsdhoorn Volunteer Rifles
Peninsular Horse
Pietersburg Light Horse
Potchefstroom Provincial Police
Pretoria Police
Prince Albert's District Mounted Troops
Prince Alfred's Volunteer Guard
Prince Albert's District Mounted Troops
Prince of Wales' Light Horse
Piquetberg District Mounted Troops
Queenstown Rifle Volunteers
The Rand Rifles
Richmond Town Guard
Rimington's Guides
Railway Pioneer Regiment
Rhodesian Regiment
Roberts' Horse
Scott's Railway Guards
Scottish Horse 1st and 2nd Regiment
Somerset East Town Guard
South African Constabulary
South Afkican Light Horse
South African Mounted Irregular Forces
South Rhodesian Volunteers
Standerton Scouts
Steinaecker's Horse
Stellenbosch Mounted Infantry
Stellenbosch Town Guard
Steytlerville Town Guard
Strathcona's Horse
Struben's Scouts
Sutherland Town Guard
Tempest's Scouts
Tarkastad Mounted Troops
Tarkastad Town Guard
Tembuland Mounted Rifle Corps
Thorneycroft's Mounted Infantry
Touws River Town Guard
Transkei Mounted Rifles
Uitenhage Volunteer Rifles
Utrecht Vryheid Mounted Police
Veld Drift Town Guard
Vryburg Special Police
Walden's Scouts
Warren's Light Horse
Warren's Mounted Infantry
Warren's Scouts
Warrington (Warrenton?) Town Guard
Wedburg Town Guard (?)
Wellington Town Guard
Western Province Mounted Rifles
Winterberg Mounted Rifles
Willowmore Town Guard
Warwick's Horse
Younghusband's Horse
Zeerust Town Guard
Zoutleif Town Guard
Indian Staff Corps
Natal Voluntary Veterinary Corps
Natal Voluntary Medical Corps
St John Ambulance Brigade
Imperial Hospital Corps