454:. In December 1941, the regiment was re-organised as a reconnaissance company, adopting the designation of the 3rd Reconnaissance Company (South Australian Mounted Rifles). For a brief period in 1942, it assumed the designation of the 3rd Motor Regiment, although this was changed in May 1942 to the 3rd Reconnaissance Squadron. In early 1943, as the Australian Army undertook a partial demobilisation, the unit was deemed surplus to requirements and was disbanded without having seen operational service during the war.
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Australia in March 1919 and subsequently disbanded. Their campaigns in the First World War cost them 158 men killed and 653 men wounded.
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484:Lieutenant Colonel
481:Frank Milton Rowell
470:Commanding officers
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416:Armistice of Mudros
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385:Battle of Jerusalem
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