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Prior to enlisting in the AIF he spent 3 years with the Victor Harbour Mounted Rifles xxx expired 2 years Inst Junior Cadets Lipson, West Coast.

Enlisted 9.8.16
31.8.16 2nd depot battalion
13/32 Infantry
Reinforcements were only given basic training in Australia. Training was completed in training units in England.
Some of these were located in the Salisbury Plain & surrounding areas in the county of Wiltshire.

23.6.17 “Borda” Adelaide
25.8.17 disembarked Plymouth Marched into 8th Trng battalion
26.8.17 Hurdcott Camp near Fovant, Wiltshire.
23.9.17 From Private to A/Cpl
28.10.17 Mumps Edinburgh
16.11.17 discharged to report Codford same date. Codford is a civil parish south of Salisbury Plain in the Wylye Valley in Wiltshire, England 15 trng Battalion
11.8.17 ??? appointed A/Sgt
3.12.17 on command at school of instruction barracks Kandahar, Tidworth, England.
Attended course No 3 Officers School Candahar, Tidworth from 3.12.17 to 18.1.18 Classification good 77%

30.1.18 Sick to hospital
8.2.18from hospital
19.3.18 reverts to ranks.
19.3.18 Proceeding o’seas to France to reinforce 48 battalion via Southampton
21.3.18 out to unit
13.4.18 Taken on strength 48 Battalion
7.9.18 Appd L/Corporal
5.10.18 promoted to Corporal to complete establishment
27.11.18 - 11.12.18 on leave from France.
28.12.18 Returned from UK leave
8.3.19 On leave Paris
22.3.19 returned from leave
5.4.19 Depart to UK for non military employment
23.4.19 Granted leave from 22.4.19 to 22.7.19 with pay & sub fees. Reason, wool xxx Attending College of Technology Manchester

Embarked “Plassy”5.9.19
Discharged 30.11.19 as Cpl, 48th battalion.

"He also joined the Army, in a voluntary capacity, in the Australian Light Horse. Commissioned as a Lieutenant on 1st January 1922, promoted to Captain on 10th November 1924, to Major on 3rd October 1927, and Lieutenant Colonel on 10th August 1933.

He was appointed Commanding Officer of the 3rd Jamestown Regiment and in succession commanded all four Regiments, the 3rd, 9th, 18th and 23rd Australian Light Horse.

Major A. S. M. Lovell, of Middleton has been promoted to Lieutenant Colonel, and to command the 9th Light Horse Regiment. The headquarters of the regiment is at Jamestown, and troops are stationed at Unley, Clare, Kybunga, Gladstone, Crystal Brook, Port Pirie, Jamestown, Peterborough, and Orroroo.

Whilst in the 18/23rd Light Horse Regiment, Colonel Lovell took an active interest in the Victor Harbour troop, and numerous trophies were won by the troops They were selected two years in succession to represent the State in the Lord Forster cup competitions. The troop also won the Shiedow Cup for the regiment Anzac Day sports. The Victor Harbor section, led by Colonel Lovell was never defeated in the
Lloyd Lindsay event. Colonel Lovell was delighted with the achievements of the three teams sent to the Melbourne Show to compete in the military events.

^{MILITARY MATTERS. (1933, November 3). Victor Harbour Times (SA : 1932 - 1986), p. 1. Retrieved July 17, 2018, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article169545281}