The regiment is an Australian Light Horse unit, and has been widely romanticised and popularised in literature and poetry throughout the 20th century.

[1] The Ipswich troop was renamed the Queensland Light Horse in 1864 and remained so until it too suffered declining number and was disbanded in 1866.

New South Wales sent a contingent but Queensland's militia was so run down that nothing could be arranged to match the effort of the southern colony.

The underlying operational principle was autonomous recruitment catchment areas located at Moreton Bay, Bundaberg, Gympie, Mackay and Townsville.

[1] Since the QMI was formed specifically for local defence, there were no legal provisions allowing the mobilisation of these units for overseas expeditionary service to South Africa.

The financial burden on such a government whose revenues were devastated by depression, drought and then Federation, could no longer afford to send men to South Africa while maintaining a partially paid Militia.

To solve this problem, the Imperial Government pledged to fund in toto additional units raised in Queensland.

[1] A re-organisation of Australian defences as a consequence of the 1910 Kitchener Report led to the creation of Military Districts.

The 14th (Queensland Mounted Infantry) West Moreton Light Horse was a newly formed unit with its catchment area around the Brisbane region rather than Townsville and so had little connection to the erstwhile 14th in everything but name and function.

[1] Austerity hit even harder after the commencement of the Great Depression when there were cutbacks in personnel numbers and forced amalgamations of militia units.

[1] After the entry of the Japanese in the war, Australian homeland defences were hastily altered to meet the expected invasion.

[1] In 1941, the 14th LHR was hived off from Queensland and transferred to the New South Wales command from which a new unit was raised being called the 14th Light Horse (Machine Gun) Regiment.

In March 2005, the regiment became a completely regular unit to meet the Army's increased operational tempo.

[5][6] In October 2016 the Regiment began the process of being restructuring under Plan Beersheba, with B Squadron replacing its ASLAVs with M113AS4s to provide combat lift to the 7th Brigade.