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Description: | British trooper served with 7th Dragoon Guards, 16th Lancers and 5th Royal Irish Lancers in GB, 1906-1910; served with 12th Royal Lancers in GB, South Africa and on Western Front, 1910-1914
REEl 1: Recollections of conditions of service, lifestyle and daily routine during training with 7th Dragoon Guards at Canterbury Barracks, 1906: background to recruitment underage and parents reactions; story of failure to identify Regimental Sergeant Major; discharge following parents complaint over underage recruitment to War Office and question of having committed criminal offence; routine duties; barrack room bed; relationship with other ranks; parade drill; morning stable duties; bugle calls; visual recognition training; organisation of training sessions.
REEL 2 Continues: method of grooming horses; watering and feeding horses; role of farrier; food rations; afternoon training; education classes; evening stable duties; inspections prior to leaving barracks; relationship with civilians during visits to Canterbury; pay and improvements to uniform; canteen.
REEL 3 Continues: Recollections of period with 16th Queen's Lancers at Colchester, Aldershot and Norwich, 1906-1910: background to re-enlistment underage; kit inspections; horses fodder; frequency of inspections; physical training; sword and lance training; importance of rifle.
REEL 4 Continues: rifle training; routine duties as recruit at Colchester during divisional exercises; learning to ride and training in mounted use of lance, sword and rifle; jumping horses; passing out of rifle school; equitation training; troops and squadron training; duties as officer's servant to brigade major; story of acting as officer's servant to General William Robertson; relationship with officers.
REEL 6 Continues: parades at Aldershot; relationship with officers and NCOs; pride in elite status of cavalry; nature of divisional exercises on Salisbury Plain including tents and advances in line abreast; layout of Aldershot barracks.
REEL 7 Continues: compositions and role of rough riding school. Recollections of period with 5 Royal Irish Lancers at York and Dublin, 1910: waiting for draft to join 12th Royal Lancers; relaxed nature of discipline; horses fodder; method of training remount horses; use of horses unsuitable for cavalry.
REEL 8 Continues: stories of taking remount horses on traffic familiarisation; uniform; first impressions of Dublin; relationship with Irish civilians. Voyage aboard Rohillia to Cape Town, South Africa, 11/1910: messdecks conditions; morning routine; inspections by ship's captain; story of dispute over incidence of stealing.
REEL 9 Continues: Recollections of period with C Sqdn, 12th Royal Lancers at Potchfstroom, South Africa, 1910-1912: nature of camp; climate; lifestyle; skill at arms competitions; relationship with Boer civilians; hired carts run by unit; sporting activities; annual manoeuvres and story of patrol into Rustenburg Mountains; story of collecting horses from Pretoria and train journey to Durban.
REEL 10 Continues: Recollections of period with C Sqdn, 12th Royal Lancers at Weedon Barracks, GB, 1913-1914: status as detached squadron from rest of unit in Norwich; riding with Pytchley Hunt; riding school; demonstrations at Weedon Donnybrook Show including vaulting and trick riding.
REEL 11 Continues: demonstrations at Weedon Donnybrook Show including tent pegging, trick riding, musical rides, push-ball game, Balaclava melee, horseback wrestling and skill at arms.
REEL 12 Continues: reaction to outbreak of war, 4/8/1914; question of role of cavalry; attitude of Boer War veterans; reservists. Recollections of operations as trooper with C Sqdn, 12th Royal Lancers on Western Front, 8/1914-9/1914: patrols and procedure on contacting German troops; nature of fighting during retreat; opinion of French cavalry; story of Royal Scots Grey dyeing horses khaki. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Lance, David G | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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