Australians
unable to enlist in any of the official Australian
Contingents went to South Africa
and joined South African
irregular units forming there.
These included Thorneycroft's
Mounted Infantry, Brabant's
Horse, Border Horse, Rimington's
Scouts, Bechuanaland Protectorate
Regiment, Bechuanaland
Rifles, Bethune's Mounted Infantry,
Waldron's Scouts, South
African Police Intelligence
Department, South African Light
Horse, Kitchener's Fighting
Scouts, Kitchener's Horse, Scott's
Railway Guards, South African
Constabulary, Menne's Scouts,
Rhodesian Regiment, Imperial
Light Infantry, Johannesburg
Mounted Rifles, Cape Town Highlanders,
1st and 2nd Imperial
Light Horse, French's Scouts,
Damant's Horse and the Marquis
of Tallabardine's Scottish Horse.
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Australian Percy Moore's medals, Queen's Chocolates
tin and discharge certificates showing he had served in
the Matabeleland Relief Force in 1896, in the British S.
Africa Police and as No. 599 in the Imperial Light Horse.
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Individual Australians also
served with distinction as officers in
some British Regiments like
the Black Watch.
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