The loss of a commander for the Liverpool half-company of mounted rifles was a key reason, for example, ... Victoria, in 1861 when the local magistrate called out the 60 men of the Kyneton District Mounted Rifles Corps to help disperse ...
The bulk of the volunteers were formed into rifle corps, with suburbs and towns also forming either coastal or field artillery, ... Light Dragoons and Kyneton Mounted Rifles each consisted of one squadron of 100 men.
saw the formation of the Victorian Volunteer Yeomanry Corps, the Adelaide Mounted Rifles and the New South Wales ... own devising and took their names from local towns – such as the Castlemaine Dragoons and the Kyneton Mounted Rifles.
... of the Victorian Volunteer Yeomanry Corps, the Adelaide Mounted Rifles and the New South Wales Cavalry Troop. ... own devising and took their names from local towns – such as the Castlemaine Dragoons and the Kyneton Mounted Rifles.
Australian Dictionary of Dates and Men of the Time: Containing the History of Australasia from 1542 to May, 1879
This book tells the life story of Joseph Furphy, author of the Australian classic, Such is Life. Drawing on a multitude of sources, this biography documents hitherto unknown aspects of...
Two of them, Robertson and his son, tried to get back to the houses, but were prevented, the son being driven back and the father being brought down by spears. Dr Kilgour rushed out of the house in his night clothes and with a ...