Description
Description: Battledress Flash – FIRST CAVALRY REGIMENT
Condition: Very Good
Comments: Worn by the 1st Cavalry Regiment only in 1965 before it was renamed 2nd Cavalry Regiment in 1966. Now obsolete and the rarest of all the post 1960 battledress flashes.
The 2nd Cavalry Regiment is a regiment of the Australian Army and is the second most senior in the Royal Australian Armoured Corps. The regiment serves in the armoured reconnaissance role.
The regiment was formed in 1965 as 1st Cavalry Regiment through the regimentation of regular squadrons in CMF regiments:
* A Squadron – A Squadron, 4th/19th Prince of Wales’s Light Horse
* B Squadron – A Squadron, 2nd/14th Queensland Mounted Infantry
These two squadrons initially had no Regimental Headquarters or HQ Squadron. However, with reorganisation of the RAAC came both an RHQ and a new name. RHQ and HQ Sqn formed at Gallipoli Lines, Holsworthy in 1971. In order to avoid confusion, it was decided that the armoured regiments of the regular army would be numbered sequentially; 1st Armoured Regiment was the most senior, so 1st Cavalry was renamed 2nd Cavalry Regiment.
