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Cavalry

We don't seem to mention cavalry equipment at all, eg they were armed with a (shorter?) versio of the standard rifle, but did not have bayonets as they were armed with sabre as well. I believe 9th Lancers still had the lance as well, and use dit in at least one charge early in the war. David Underdown (talk) 11:30, 24 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The cavalry were armed with the standard SMLE unlike the German and French cavalry that were armed with carbines, I will have to try and look up bayonets. --Jim Sweeney (talk) 11:40, 24 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I see we already have 1908 and 1912 Pattern British Army Cavalry Swords. I'm sure I had read taht whilst they used a rifle, it had a slightly shorter barrel than the infantry SMLE to make it easier to manage when mounted. It probably given in more detail in Richard Holmes's book Tommy. David Underdown (talk) 14:33, 24 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Having checked, Holmes says the British acvalry used exactly the same rifle as their infantry counterparts, unlike any of the other cavalry, and wore the same uniforms and equipment, with the exception that they wore a bandolier, rather than the webbing (I think we mention this in an image caption, but not in the article text proper). Despite efforts by reformers after the Boer War, the lance was still carried (although it had briefly been discarded a few years earlier), and I understand that 9th Lancers did actually use it in a couple of charges (one day I'll great round to finishing User:David Underdown/David Campbell (British Army officer) who led them in those charges). David Underdown (talk) 13:52, 26 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

This Badsey, Stephen (2008). Doctrine and Reform in the British Cavalry 1880-1918. Birmingham Studies in First World War History. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. ISBN 9780754664673. might help on the cavalry front too. I notice looking at British Army during World War I that there's no mention of horsed cavalry doctrin in there so far as I can see, which seems a bit of an omission. David Underdown (talk) 10:02, 6 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Convalescent Blues

Does this seem the appropriate place to mention "Convalescent Blues", the British WWI uniform for inured soldiers? Kavius (talk) 00:46, 6 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Merger proposal

I propose merging 1914 pattern Webbing into British Army uniform and equipment in World_War I#1914 Pattern Leather Equipment. This is a very thin stub with only one webpage reference. Also the 1914 equipment was not made from webbing, so the page title is just plain wrong. Alansplodge (talk) 12:30, 14 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Done

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Enfield/Coventry

See section Nedrutland. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Hotchkiss_M1909_Ben%C3%A9t%E2%80%93Merci%C3%A9_machine_gun Hengistmate (talk) 18:45, 30 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]