First Gawler Rifles

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Type of organisation: Community Service



Date established: 1859


The voluntary First Gawler Rifles (or Gawler First Rifles) existed as far back as 1859 and the Volunteer Mounted Rifles formed in 1890, although disbanded five years later when a new Act enforced volunteer forces to become militia, leading to the formation of the non-military Gawler Rifle Club in 1897.[1]



References

  1. Coombe E H (1910) History of Gawler 1837-1908




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