18th Light Horse [MG] Regiment [Adelaide Lancers]

Activities of the 18th Light Horse (Machine Gun) Regiment. Point Pearce Station, S.A. troopers marching and on parade. Includes a slow motion scene of troops shouldering arms. The men swimming at the beach and in full Light Horse dress uniform receiving field rations. Barracks scenes with men on parade. The regiment's Ford 12 cwt utilities lined up near the beach. Troops marching and mounting 3 ton Ford trucks for transport to the rifle range. The men swimming at the beach and receiving rations after the swim and returning to the trucks. Troopers digging positions on manoeuvres. Senior officer's drinking tea in front of a Ford 12 cwt utility. Entrenched and camouflaged Vickers Machine gun position. Vickers guns in action on the range. Troopers loading rounds into the machine gun belts. Ford 3 ton GS truck camouflaged with grass. Trooper with Hotchkiss Mk1 Light Machine Gun on an anti-aircraft mount. Lewis guns in sand bagged positions. Sand bagged rifle firing position. A review of the Regiment's motor vehicles. Exercise with troops mounted on vehicles in convoy out in the country side. Two troopers in a rocky Observation Post. Field kitchen troop drinking tea and cooks preparing meals. Troops mounted on horses. Men (Squadron?) lined up for a group photograph. Troopers digging Command Post entrenchments. Using range finders. Various shots of entrenched positions. Men in swimming costumes playing will a ball. Squadron? march past (troops in shorts shouldering rifles). Troops at a railway station. Arrival of a steam train and shots from the train as it passes through Eden and Mount Lofty sations. Vickers machine gun firing on range, moving targets pit stops and targets. Troops getting dressed outside possibly after issue of new uniforms. Troops marching down a road in tropical uniform wearing "tin hats" (end B&W section). (Colour section) Military band leading march through Adelaide. Men in tropical uniform with tin hats march past. Drive past of motor vehicles, motor bikes, Ford 12 cwt utilities, Cheverolet 3 ton trucks, Ford 3 ton trucks towing Whiles cookers (field kitchen.)