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| This detail from a painting photographed in the KRH officers’ mess at Tidworth shows the men of the 10th Hussars on exercise in the early 1870s. The men on the hill are keeping a lookout for enemy activity while a private, in the foreground approaches a mounted officer, not seen in this detail, to report. Figures in the distance on the skyline are patrolling cautiously. This painting, although to modern eyes demonstrating an old fashioned idea of soldiers fighting in dress uniform, is a good illustration of the roles played by light cavalry in the latter half of the 19th century, and further developed in the 10th Hussars under Valentine Baker’s forward-looking training programme. |
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