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Inspection of the Middlesex Yeomanry Cavalry in Bushey Park, 1883. Creator: Unknown.

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Inspection of the Middlesex Yeomanry Cavalry in Bushey Park, 1883. The Yeomanry '...were inspected by Colonel W. Mussenden, Inspecting Officer for Auxiliary Cavalry in the Aldershott District...[The regiment was] under the command of Lieut.-Colonel W. H. Harfield, and is likely to have sent a very favourable report of it to the War Office. An experimental novelty of some military interest has lately been attempted, by arming the C Troop of the Middlesex Yeomanry with the long rifle and bayonet, to act as Mounted Infantry; and the exercise was displayed upon this occasion by twenty-five men of the troop; but it has not altogether proved a success, and the men rather complain of the inconvenience of carrying the long weapon on horseback. Colonel Mussenden, after carefully examining this matter, decided that he would, on the whole, recommend the troop to return to the use of the short Martini-Henry carbine. The expediency of creating a body of mounted troops who should carry the ordinary infantry weapon, and who should be trained to dismount at the moment of action, has been much discussed since the example of the Boers, in the Transvaal War, showed how it could be practised'. From "Illustrated London News", 1883.

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HRM25A43_221

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24,7Mo (2,0Mo) / 31,0cm x 19,9cm / 3666 x 2356 (300dpi)

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