Exercising The Horses
Exercising The Horses As cavalry regiments, the 10th Royal Hussars and 11th Hussars depended on fit, healthy mounts and this month we highlight one aspect of good horse-keeping: swimming is not only healthy exercise for humans, but also for horses. These photographs come from the Journal of the 11th Hussars (Prince Albert’s Own), kept […]
Henry William Engleheart V.C.
Henry William Engleheart V.C. Henry William Engleheart was born on the 14th November 1868 in Blackheath, London. The son of a stockbroker, Henry chose a military career and joined the 10th Royal Hussars in August 1887 aged 19. Interestingly his recruiting officer Lieut J Byng, later went on to become Field Marshall Byng of […]
Lieutenant Robert Flint ‘Bob’ Drake, 10th Royal Hussars (PWO)
Lieutenant Robert Flint ‘Bob’ Drake, 10th Royal Hussars (PWO) In early 1915, Lieutenant Colonel T T Pitman, Commanding Officer of the 11th Hussars, took a photograph of the graves of a group of British cavalry officers buried in the small Belgian town of Ypres. Three of those commemorated were officers of the 10th Hussars, a […]
The Crown Prince
The Crown Prince On 4th August 1914, Great Britain declared war on Germany. HorsePower contains a slightly unusual memento of the pre-war period – a page from the illustrated magazine The Sphere of July 1911 depicting the Crown Prince of Germany, Friedrich Wilhelm Victor August Ernst of Prussia, Colonel-in-Chief of the 11th Hussars (Prince Albert’s […]
The 11th Light Dragoons in the Peninsula War
The 11th Light Dragoons in the Peninsula War On 4th May 1811, the 11th Light Dragoons sailed from Plymouth, bound for Portugal and the war against Napoleon. On 30th May, Colonel Henry Cumming, 32 officers, 36 sergeants, eight trumpeters and 642 men arrived at Lisbon to fight in the Peninsula War during which they […]
The Great War
The Great War On 28th July 1914, the armies of Austro-Hungary invaded Serbia in retribution for the murder of the heir to the Empire’s throne by Balkan nationalists. A sequence of events led, on 4th August, to Great Britain declaring war in defence of Belgian neutrality: the war was to last over four long […]
Alamein 1942
Alamein 1942 70 years ago this October, the Second Battle of Alamein took place in Egypt. It was one of the decisive battles of the Second World War which led to the eventual expulsion of German and Italian troops from Africa; freed the Middle Eastern oil fields from the threat of capture; cleared the Mediterranean […]
Delhi Durbar 1911
Delhi Durbar 1911 In 1902 The 10th Royal Hussars sailed for India, arriving in Bombay in October, where, in 1905, they received a visit from the Prince and Princess of Wales – later to become King George V and Queen Mary. In 1907 the regiment moved to Rawalpindi (now in Pakistan) where they […]
The 10th Royal Hussars Mechanisation
The 10th Royal Hussars Mechanisation In the late summer of 1936 the 10th Royal Hussars (Prince of Wales’s own) arrived at Tidworth on their return from India. (Incidentally, this was the first time in the regiment’s history that the 10th had returned home from India without stopping-off for battle – in the Crimea, Egypt […]
The 11th Hussars Mechanisation
The 11th Hussars Mechanisation Although the concept of armoured vehicles had been established since the times of Leonardo da Vinci, it was the First World War that saw the first use of armoured vehicles in action: the British had introduced the tank in 1916, in the Battle of the Somme, and armoured cars had […]
