8th HUSSARS: ALBERT 21st – 23rd AUG 1918
On the dull muggy day of the 20th the 8th Hussars …
On the dull muggy day of the 20th the 8th Hussars …
The advance of the Canadian, Australian and Cavalry Corps to …
The Battles of the Somme from 21 March to 5 April 1918 marked …
The 8th King’s Royal Irish Hussars were involved in …
The Crimean War, the most destructive of the Victorian era, was notable for …
The 8th, commanded by Colonel Thomas Packenham Vandeleur, played a key role in the victory over the Marathas at Leswarree…
27th October 1915 the Belfast News-Letter informed its readers that North Irish Horse Lieutenant James Robert. B. Armstrong had transferred to the 8th King’s Royal Irish Hussars. Armstrong revealed the main reason for his move in a letter to his father – that he was finding it hard to afford the lavish messing being insisted on by the squadron’s senior officers! He wrote: “… any mess I have been to out here has been a good deal cheaper than ours.…