ACCIDENTS HAPPEN
In peacetime we train for War and unfortunately, sometimes, accidents do happen:
In peacetime we train for War and unfortunately, sometimes, accidents do happen:
Lieutenant W.D. Buddicom MC, B Squadron, 4th Queen’s Own Hussars. Killed In Action on the 6th June 1918, Age: 24.
On the eve of the Battle of Waterloo the 7th were given the charge on the advancing enemy, the French 2nd regiment of lancers …
The morning of the 22nd of July, 1812, dawned clear and fine…
The last battle, fought on 27th June 1743, at which a British King was present, King George II: a victory for the Pragmatic Army led, nominally, by King George II
Captain Richard Vaughan-Griffith, was awarded an MC in Aden in 1967 whilst serving with The Queen’s Own Hussars.
In 1834 the guidons and standards then carried by the light cavalry regiments were abolished and were not restored until the reign of Queen Elizabeth II.
Along with other elements of the British Army’s uniforms and equipment, the development of saddlery accelerated apace during the last thirty years of the nineteenth century.
The personal load carrying equipment carried by the cavalryman in the eighteen-seventies was much like that worn during the Napoleonic Wars; a wide shoulder belt with a cartridge pouch on the rear, a haversack for rations and personal kit and a water canteen.
The first universal sword for the entire cavalry arm was the 1853 pattern which was modified in 1864 to a bowl guard, with pierced Maltese cross, replacing the cast-iron three bar guard (which broke regularly).