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Description: | A button of the Woking Vounteer Cavalry. The inscription reads WOKEING VOLR CAV around a central crown. The R of VOLR is small and superscript. The button is circular and domed with a hollow back and integral loop and decorated tinned face. The cast maker's name on the back is difficult to read but appears to be [...]ERMIN.
This cavalry was one of many forces of yeomanry formed at the time to face the threat of Napoleonic invasion. The Woking cavalry was formed in 1798 with a request for intending members to enrol at The Crown, Woking. The troop appears to have been disbanded shortly after formation in c1801-2 and reformed as the Guildford and Blackheath troop in August 1803. The Woking cavalry consisted of one troop (approximately 80-100 men) under the command of Capt T.W. Weston (of Sutton Park, very close to the findspot). | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | Publisher: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Rights holder: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Subjects: | archaeology | Temporal: | 1798
1802 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | David Williams | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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