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NATAL HUSSAR'S NCO'S

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Formed on 11 July 1865 the Natal Hussars came into being for the protection of the districts of Greytown, York and Noodsberg in the Natal Midlands. They were a smaller unit that their sister regiment, the Greytown Mounted Rifles, surviving a period between 1864 and 1872 when many of the smaller units of the Natal Volunteer Corps were disbanded due to austerity cuts. During this period the Hussars experienced a drop in numbers but remained an effective unit throughout.

In 1866 the Natal Hussars was raised by a Major Eastwood in the same area. In 1869 the two units amalgamated under the designation of the Natal Hussars. Durban Mounted Rifles (1873/5-1888). ... It was raised on the south coast of Natal, and was the parent corps of the Natal Mounted Rifles.

A photograph of the Natal Hussars (later Umvoti Mounted Rifles) equipped with Snider cavalry carbines. (Source: Du Plessis, A J, The Umvoti Mounted Rifles, Proton Times, Pietermaritzburg, 1975, p54)