1st Royal New South Wales Lancers
MILITARY UNIT
New South Wales Lancers; 1st Light Horse (Machine Gun) Regiment (Royal New South Wales Lancers); 1st Machine Gun Regiment (Australia); 1st Armoured Car Regiment (Australia); 1st Motor Regiment (Australia); 1st Tank Battalion (Australia); 1st Army Tank Battalion (Australia); 1st Light Horse Regiment; 1st Light Horse Regiment (Australia); Sydney Light Horse; New South Wales Cavalry
The 1st Royal New South Wales Lancers was an Australian Army light cavalry (reconnaissance) regiment. Its complicated lineage includes the New South Wales Lancers which was first formed as a colonial unit in 1885 as the New South Wales Cavalry, and subsequently saw action in the Second Boer War, and later during First World War at Gallipoli and Palestine as the 1st Light Horse Regiment.