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From: "Charles.Clark" <>
Subject: [WW1] Re: GREATWAR-D Digest V00 #331
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 10:06:59 +1300
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wrote:

> At 18:04 18/11/00 +0000, tracy.marsh wrote:
> >Hi to all Listers
> >Have just subscrbed in the hope that someone out there can help me.
> >I believe that my Grandfather may have been in the 15th/19th hussars.
> >I am under the impression that he was a ? rough riding seargent [were his
> >riding skills poor??] or was this actually a term.
> >Also that he was a prisoner of war [battle of the Somme]
> >Any information on the Battalion and their endevours also What chance have
> >I in checking out whether Grandfather did serve with them and any record
> >there may be? His Name being Albert Taney of Norfolk
> >TIA

Tracey - Iain is certainly a good man to be able to get info from, and I thank him for his reassurance on the matter of Henry Stewart-Moore (see above) The only bit of your email he hasn't answered is the
bit about rough riding. I can't really answer it either, but I can say that "Rough riding" is a term that desribes the country ridden over rather than the rider! An example from western Canada: In the
latter years of last century there was a negro horseman named John Ware, who worked for some time on my ggf's ranch, the Sheep Creek Ranche Co just couth of Calgary (later the Quorn ranch) He was
something of a legend, and I have a copy of a letter in which he "is said to be the best rough-rider in the north west). In other words, the best rider over unkown and open country, such as rangeland. A
horseman and a half! And very definitely NOT one with "poor riding skills!" So your "rough riding sergeant" would have made an execellent dispatch rider, for example, able to find his way back to base no
matter what the obstacles. A very different skill to those that would be displayed on the parade-ground, or in the dressage ring
Charlie

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