FRENCH AND BRITISH CAVALRY.

King Country Chronicle, Volume IX, Issue 737, 16 January 1915, Page 3

FRENCH AND BRITISH CAVALRY.

/The —-th Regiment are sworn brothers to one of ours. They have been associated together in protecting retiring infantry, in guarding gun*?, and in destroying th)se or the enemy. Time after time this brigade and an English one have charged the masses of German horsemen and gone through their ranks like a red-hot knife through butter. There is nothing of the French flair about these chaps/as they report themselves to the adjutant, present their records, and go through other necessary formalities, before they are at liberty to turn into their quarters. And, heavens! 'how t*iey sleep and sleep and sleep! They will drop, off over their scup for the first day or so they are in barracks. They are making up arrears. '

What pleased me most was that they were modelling themselves on our soldiers. They were schooling themselves to the same suppression of ell outward' manifestation cf the emotions; the same careless Bang froid. the same cool-beaded courage. When one remembers that our men are of the same class with our Trade Unionists and labourers, our artisans and those lumped together ag the Working classes, it is something to be proud of that the —th Dragoons should regard them as examples of all that is desirable in men. Thesa Dragoons belong to a Well-to-do district, and their ranks are fiilad with farmers, farmers' sons, business and professional men, as well as others. They say the British soldier is "a gentleman," and the very word is being acclimatised in France as the highest term of approbation which may be conferred.

The officers are much the same in their ways. "But, yes," said snn, "it was hot out there and dirty, but it was what your men call 'great fun.' I had two horses killed under me. Your cavalry and ours male the Germans have fear." That "is not unlike a British officer I met whose remark was, "Yes, it was tough for a bit and the trenches are dirty holes, but it was a good deal of a l*»rk. I had only one wash in seven days.—Daily Citizen.