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23.01.2022 Happy New Year! We take this opportunity to wish all our member, sponsors and supporters a happy, safe and prosperous new year!

22.01.2022 Merry Christmas 2020! To all our members, supporters and sponsors we wish you a safe and merry Christmas!

17.01.2022 Troop Barracks. Members conducted fatigue duties over the weekend. The barracks got a general clean up, mow and some fresh paint. Still a bit to do to finish off. Well done to Aaron McMillan on his efforts in organising the weekend along with our members who helped out. Also many thanks to our sponsors, Mitre 10 Goulburn for supplying the paint. We will see you in the field at Ladysmith next month!

16.01.2022 We are now a part of the 7th Light Horse Gundagai Troop. So contact us if you want to join!

15.01.2022 Ladysmith Railway Centenary - 1921 to 2021 Come see our WWI Project (7th Light Horse and 4th Battalion) at the Centenary Celebrations in Ladysmith. We will have a static display and conduct some demonstrations. Plenty to do for the whole family!

13.01.2022 MOUNTED GOLD ESCORT (40th REGIMENT OF FOOT) 1853- 1857 In May 1853 in the Colony of Victoria, Australia, a company of 125 soldiers from the 40th(2nd Somersetshire) Regiment of Foot was detached from regimental duties and uniformed, equipped and mounted as light cavalry. 'The Mounted Gold Escort' was tasked with escorting gold from the Victorian gold fields to the Melbourne Treasury. The regular infantryman’s uniform was replaced by a so-called Garibaldi shirt or jumper, with ...buff breeches and over the knee boots with jack-spurs. The standard infantry 1844 pattern (Albert) Shako with brass 40th Regiment helmet-plate was retained, and was worn during the summer months covered with a white linen Havelock cover with neck flap. Accoutrements were black leather, and a cavalry sword and carbine replaced their previous infantry rifle and bayonet. Thirty mounted troopers of the Gold Escort joined with 70 Mounted Gold Fields Police in supporting the 12th and 40th Regiments of Foot assault on the dissident miners defending the Eureka Stockade on the morning of 3 December 1854. The Mounted Gold Escort was disbanded in December 1857. https://m.facebook.com/groups/VMS3701/permalink/3615135558561991/

13.01.2022 Fir anyone interested in some bushranger History!

11.01.2022 Today marks the anniversary of when Elizabeth Hume was left widowed by the brutal murder of her husband John Kennedy Hume during the siege at "Red John" Copper'...s store by the Whitton gang at Gunning on 20th January 1840. Last year would have marked 180 years since this event in History. This trove entry from his daughter Annie gives her personal account https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/138786788 Their children, eldest being a daughter Elizabeth been around 14, Mary Ann 13, Jane 12, Andrew, Isabella 8, Annie 6 Catherine 5 and Emma Matilda only a year old. A 2nd son would be born in sad circumstances later in August of that year. Making 9 children. Things were already on high alert that afternoon in January, given word got around that the Whitton gang were near by & shots could be heard coming from the township. Elizabeth would have been beside herself wondering what lay ahead for her husband as he rode off towards the gunfire in attempt to help the neighbors. He wouldn't back down without a fight. Her fears were realized and she was in disbelief when her husband's men came back to obviously tell her. What a shocking scene for his little girls & young son. All now without a father & a protector. His dog Frantic wouldn't leave his master's side. John Kennedy Hume is buried at Gunning.

07.01.2022 The WWI project will be in the field this weekend at Ladysmith Tourist Railway Join us for a great family weekend out. If you're interested in joining our Troop come talk with us about our different projects.

02.01.2022 On this day 148 years ago (Friday 24.02.1865) - whilst harboured in Tom Byrne’s barn at Mutbilly near Breadalbane the gang were surprised before dawn by a part...y of police. After a gunfight Hall, Gilbert and Dunn escape on foot leaving behind booty including half a dozen revolvers, handkerchiefs marked Faithfull, and the racehorses Bosco and Bergamot. See more