3 2 c m
40cm
actual image size: 32cm x 24cm
1st Reserve Regiment of Cavalry in training, Aldershot, 1914 (c).
Photograph, 1914 (c).
Cavalry duties consisted largely of protection: forming a screen some 1.5-3km ahead of the advancing infantry and making first contact with the enemy, then discovering and reporting his dispositions and movements. Cavalry could also be moved quickly to a threatened point to strengthen the firing line, or to occupy a position before the enemy could do so and hold it until the infantry arrived. Most of this was mounted infantry work in which the horse was used for mobility only.
From an album compiled by Colonel G F Milner, Life Guards and 5th (Royal Irish) Lancers.
Photograph, 1914 (c).
Cavalry duties consisted largely of protection: forming a screen some 1.5-3km ahead of the advancing infantry and making first contact with the enemy, then discovering and reporting his dispositions and movements. Cavalry could also be moved quickly to a threatened point to strengthen the firing line, or to occupy a position before the enemy could do so and hold it until the infantry arrived. Most of this was mounted infantry work in which the horse was used for mobility only.
From an album compiled by Colonel G F Milner, Life Guards and 5th (Royal Irish) Lancers.
Image Details
Negative No.
1004984
Accession No.
NAM. 1974-10-174-107
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