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by Larry Emrick
Wed Dec 12, 2007 11:04 am
Forum: Archive
Topic: Rhodesian McClellans and the Greys Scouts
Replies: 567
Views: 159516

Roy, Cougar: Those are the kinds of questions and answers that I would dearly like to see from earlier conflicts. Despite all the reading I have done I have very little sense of the kinds of things of which Roy speaks. Much of what I read has come either from official accounts, or soldier's diaries,...
by Larry Emrick
Wed Apr 04, 2007 3:53 pm
Forum: Reviews & Commentary
Topic: review of an interesting new book
Replies: 1
Views: 1533

review of an interesting new book

RIDING INTO WAR: THE MEMOIR OF A HORSE TRANSPORT DRIVER, 1916-1919 James Robert Johnston, assisted by Brent Wilson (Fredericton: Goose Lanes Editions & the New Brunswick Military Heritage Project, 2004), Soft Cover, 103 pages with 25 photographs, one drawing and 3 maps, $14.95 CAD, ISBN 0-86492-...
by Larry Emrick
Thu Nov 09, 2006 4:46 pm
Forum: Reviews & Commentary
Topic: slightly of topic
Replies: 0
Views: 1212

slightly of topic

By LARRY EMRICK Vancouver Sun For years, Lillian Morley had an old First World War bayonet under the bed in her house in Victoria. It was the bayonet, according to the family history, with which her husband Joe was wounded in hand-to-hand fighting in France. It was also the bayonet, along with the s...
by Larry Emrick
Mon Mar 06, 2006 8:15 pm
Forum: Archive
Topic: Mounted Police Today
Replies: 255
Views: 89920

excerpt from the Toronto police website : Brigadier remembered Monday, March 06, 2006 - 04:11 PM | More than 1,000 people paid their last respects to Brigadier, the Belgian cross police horse who was killed in the line of duty last month. Chief Bill Blair, Mayor David Miller, Minister of Community S...
by Larry Emrick
Tue Oct 18, 2005 4:32 pm
Forum: Reviews & Commentary
Topic: small history of ww1 cavalry
Replies: 1
Views: 3233

small history of ww1 cavalry

from a miniature soldiers website no less The British Army Dr. Gavin Hughes 'The rifle, effective as it is, cannot replace the effect produced by the speed of the horse, the magnetism of the charge and the terror of the cold steel.' - British Army Council, 'Cavalry Tactics' (1907) BRITISH CAVALRY UN...
by Larry Emrick
Tue Jun 10, 2003 4:09 pm
Forum: Archive
Topic: Swiss Military Tack
Replies: 55
Views: 21892

PAT, DAVID: To respond to a couple of queries on the Swiss saddle: The numnahs on the sidebars look remarkably similar to those on the universal pattern but it's difficult to say from the photos how similar the rest of the saddle might be. Regarding Swiss mounted troops I recall in 1970 while travel...
by Larry Emrick
Fri Mar 07, 2003 4:54 pm
Forum: Reviews & Commentary
Topic: Western Horseman: "In Defense of the McLellan"
Replies: 12
Views: 4027

Pat: Can you post the Western Horseman photo, please. I can't seem to access it. Thanks, Larry
by Larry Emrick
Tue May 07, 2002 4:42 pm
Forum: Public Forum - General Topics
Topic: Bonfire
Replies: 24
Views: 11446

Bonfire

Lt. -Col. John McCrae's horse Bonfire, with McCrae's boots reversed in the stirrups, at McCrae's funeral in France, January, 1918. McCrae was the famed Canadian soldier-surgeon who wrote In Flander's Field. A veteran of the Boer war, McCrae volunteered when the First World War was declared and serve...
by Larry Emrick
Mon Oct 29, 2001 5:57 pm
Forum: Archive
Topic: whitman saddle
Replies: 12
Views: 7429

Gentlemen: Thanks for your interest in the Whitman. Pat, I will get a photo of it and send it along to you, as well as a shot of my aging yet faithful Max with his UP, and you can post them on the site if you wish . It may take a bit of time since I have the UP shots but not the Whitman. George: Tha...
by Larry Emrick
Fri Oct 26, 2001 9:48 pm
Forum: Archive
Topic: whitman saddle
Replies: 12
Views: 7429

HI, PAT: I was hoping you would check in on this but the more I think about it I suspect it's just a nice old civilian saddle. I did later what I should have done in the first place and that was to check the Net for the name of the manufacturer and sure enough there were several hits including one f...
by Larry Emrick
Fri Oct 26, 2001 3:24 pm
Forum: Archive
Topic: whitman saddle
Replies: 12
Views: 7429

Further discussion with my neighbour's husband, who is a race-horse trainer, reveals that he bought it for $75 about 25 years ago from "an old guy at the race track" . The "old guy" said it was made early in the last centurty for a hunter who used it on hunting trips 'out west' ....
by Larry Emrick
Fri Oct 26, 2001 1:14 pm
Forum: Archive
Topic: whitman saddle
Replies: 12
Views: 7429

whitman saddle

I have just this morning discovered that my next-door neighbour has a whitman saddle which I now have beside me so I can describe it in full. I promised her I would try to find out some information for her. It is stamped in several places including on the stirrup hoods WHITMAN surrounded by The Mehl...