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Description: | Ts memoir (15pp), entitled WITH HORSES TO JERUSALEM, written about his service as a Lieutenant in 1/1st Royal Bucks Hussars (6th Mounted Brigade), describing the preparations for, and the campaign leading up to, the capture of Jerusalem in November and December 1917, including attacks on Gaza and Beersheba, the military activities of the cavalry and living conditions in the desert, problems with enemy aircraft and of watering horses and the last major cavalry charge in history by the British Army at El Mughar on 13 November 1917; together with miscellaneous documents relating to his military service and to the painting of the 6th Mounted Brigade charge at El Mughar, the cavalry contribution to a representative collection of First World war studies.
Cataloguer NLY
Catalogue date 1987-04-03 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Perkins, C H | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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