8th/13th Victorian Mounted Rifles

8th/13th Victorian Mounted Rifles
Active	1948–92
Country	Australia
Branch	Australian Army Reserve
Role	Armoured / reconnaissance
Size	Regiment
Part of	2nd Armoured Brigade
Garrison/HQ	Northern Victoria Southern New South Wales
Motto(s)	Pro Rege Et Patria (Latin: "For My King and Country")[1]

The 8th/13th Victorian Mounted Rifles (8th/13th VMR) was an armoured regiment of the Australian Army Reserve. Formed in 1948, the regiment initially operated M3 Grant medium tanks, but was later re-equipped with Centurion tanks in the late 1950s. Operating out of several depots across northern Victoria and southern New South Wales, throughout the 1950s, 60s and 70s the regiment undertook both an armoured and reconnaissance role operating both tanks and armoured cars before being re-equipped with M113A1 armored personnel carriers in the early 1970s. In 1976, the regiment was reduced to a squadron sized element. It was eventually merged with the 4th/19th Prince of Wales's Light Horse in 1992.