Sergeant Gallery

Jockeys as troopers in the 19th Hussars, WW1

Leading jockeys pose for a photograph before leaving for the front for active service as troopers of the 19th Hussars in 1914. From left to right are: - Top row - R. Arbuthnot, N. Nutt, A. Arbuthnot, Sergeant K. Stewart, F. Tweed, C. Weston, Charles Lister, middle row - G. Heasman, H. Davis, P. Roberts, Lord Torrington, Lieutenant P. P. Curtis, Sergeant J. Kinally, Percy Woodland, Tyrwhitt Drake, R. Morgan bottom row - F. Giles, J. McMaster, J. Bloomfield, G. Jones. Among the rider pictured here, Herbert Tyrwhitt-Drake was killed in action, March 1915 and Percy Woodland, who had won the Grand National in 1903 on Drumcree and 1913 on Covercoat, survived the war despite being shot down in Egypt in December 1916 while serving with the Royal Flying Corps. George Byng, Lord Torrington, a gentleman jockey and race horse owner who had married the actress and Gaiety Girl Eleanor Souray in 1910, was taken prisoner-of-war in Philippopolis while serving with the Royal Naval Air Service, but survived to live a somewhat scandalous life punctuated by debt and affairs. Date: 1914

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans

Belgian soldiers larks at Quex Park

Seven men are larking about with a large bath chair or basket. One man is underneath it, two others are sitting on top or behind it, others are standing around. They are all very amused. The photograph is taken in the grounds at Quex Park; there is some melting snow on the grass. The man beneath the basket is Sgt Emile Verheyen from Ghent, a patient between 14 November 1914 and 29 March 1915. He was married to a Belgian girl in Ramsgate in 1916. The man on top of the basket is Artieme Mettrie from Antwerp, a patient between 14 November 1914 and 13 May 1915. He had had a finger amuputated but leter returned to active service in Belgium. The Quex Park VAD Hospital opened on 15 October 1914 and closed on 31 January 1919. The hospital was run by Kent/178, the Birchington Detachment. The Commandant was Hannah Powell-Cotton (1881-1964), wife of Major Percy HG Powell-Cotton (1866-1940) of Quex Park, founder of the Powell-Cotton Museum. Date: 1915

© The Powell-Cotton Museum Collection / Mary Evans Picture Library

Sergeant Jasper, of Charleston

Sergeant Jasper, of Charleston. Replacing the Colors which had been shot away from Fort Moultrie, during the combined attack of the British Fleet and Army, upon Charleston, Sout Carolina June 28th 1776 during the American Revolutionary War Date: June 28th 1776

© Mary Evans / Museum of the City of New York

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