Look to me like shoe blanks hooked over a bar of some sort.
David
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- Thu Oct 02, 2008 8:35 am
- Forum: Archive
- Topic: The Everyday Tasks of Cavalry Life
- Replies: 43
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- Fri Sep 19, 2008 2:37 am
- Forum: Archive
- Topic: Varieties of Bugles
- Replies: 43
- Views: 30261
Re: Varieties of Bugles
An interesting image from the Boer war. The caption is interesting
David
David
- Mon Dec 10, 2007 4:05 am
- Forum: Reviews & Commentary
- Topic: Waterloo
- Replies: 17
- Views: 6654
- Wed Nov 14, 2007 11:15 am
- Forum: Reviews & Commentary
- Topic: My Boy Jack
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2871
The real issue was that he was very shortsighted, almost blind without glasses, and was turned down by the Navy and later the Army. The sight test was without glasses, on the basis that if he lost them he would be in danger, a danger to his men and a liability. His father Rudyard, was a prominent ac...
- Wed Nov 14, 2007 3:55 am
- Forum: Reviews & Commentary
- Topic: My Boy Jack
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2871
Pat, It is a single episode. Not much scope for a series. His father pulls many strings to get Jack commisioned despite his age and very bad eyesight. Jack is a perfect officer, goes to the front. Missing on about his second day. His family mount a long and detailed search for him. Killed heroically...
- Mon Nov 12, 2007 4:19 am
- Forum: Reviews & Commentary
- Topic: My Boy Jack
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2871
- Thu Jul 05, 2007 3:18 am
- Forum: Archive
- Topic: British Enlisted Pocket Knife
- Replies: 44
- Views: 34258
- Tue Oct 21, 2003 8:05 am
- Forum: Archive
- Topic: Death's Head and Cavalry units
- Replies: 99
- Views: 37345
Well, IMO not as an expert on ww1 - I think that there is a good deal of licence there. The helmet marking looks very wrong (although you can never say an individual did not paint his helmet, at least until an officer noticed it). I would have expected a white, correct badge as per Trooper, small an...
- Fri Sep 05, 2003 8:50 am
- Forum: Archive
- Topic: Mounted Police Today
- Replies: 255
- Views: 90391
Bristol
In the area where I work, around Bristol, the Police have a mounted section. I just checked for a website and came up with this which I thought might be interesting -
http://www.avonandsomerset.police.uk/da ... _smith.asp
David Webb
http://www.avonandsomerset.police.uk/da ... _smith.asp
David Webb
- Fri May 10, 2002 8:07 am
- Forum: Public Forum - General Topics
- Topic: Bonfire
- Replies: 24
- Views: 11496
Garry Owen and The Girl I Left Behind Me
The route by which Garry Owen arrived in the US is interesting. this is a partial extract from a website "It has been used by several Irish Regiments as their quick march. The Royal Irish Lancers, stationed in the suburbs of Limerick called "Garryowen," (The Gaelic word, meaning "...