The University Volunteer Rifle Corps (UVRC) was raised on 17 November 1900, as part of the colonial military forces of New South Wales.

VD, a former officer of the East Surrey Regiment, and employed as a teacher of physics at the university, encouraged the formation of a volunteer military unit.

The volunteers held their first parade in uniform later that year, when visited by the Duke of York, later to become George V. The UVRC appeared in public for the first time at a review ceremony in Centennial Park on the occasion of the coronation of Edward VII.

At this time it also became responsible for the training of boy soldiers, the forerunner of today's Australian Cadet Corps, during their attendance at camps.

He enlisted in the Second AIF and was awarded the Victoria Cross on 28 November 1941 "for most conspicuous and sustained gallantry, and for outstanding bravery from 19th June to 16th July in Syria."

In May 1969, protesting students confronted a guard of honour for Sir Roden Cutler VC, who was honorary colonel of the regiment and governor of NSW.

[2] The Sydney University Regiment provides a series of training block (TB) courses to qualify officer cadets to graduate from the Royal Military College - Duntroon as a lieutenant in the Australian Army Reserve.

[citation needed] Sydney University Regiment also provides the opportunity for trainees to elect to undertake their Army Reserve Officer Training within a one-year time frame.

Participants undertake their training block modules in close succession and then after graduation as a lieutenant will move into an allocated Australian Regular Army unit for the remainder of a year long full-time contract.

[4] Comcare, the federal work health and safety watchdog, also announced an investigation into the regiment's alleged abuse of its cadets.