Yeomanry Gallery

Result of running into a Teller Mine

Photograph: Result of running into a Teller Mine. Shows the back part of a tank with a broken track in a desert landscape. From a photograph album containing 183 photographs compiled by Maj Wilfred Herbert James Sale, MC, 3rd/4th County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters), 1941-1943. Photographs are of Africa and relate to 7th Armoured Division. With captions from a separate index volume. Associated with World War Two, North Africa (1940-1943). Date: 1943

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Printed cotton handkerchief, ?The New Broad Sword Exercise?

Printed cotton handkerchief, ?The New Broad Sword Exercise?, published by William Hanson and Sons, Manchester, inscribed at bottom left ?WH 1798?, 1798. White with black and red printing; centrally, an oval vignette depicting mounted Yeomanry in mock combat. The central vignette is surmounted by a face marked with six lines, inscribed ?the Six Cuts?; the handkerchief is printed with three columns of inscribed instructions in sword play; with, at the edge, 14 vignettes depicting various elements of mounted and dismounted sword play; the whole within a border of cannons, arrowheads and laurel sprays. Date: 1798

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Cicely and Winifred Mordaunt, WW1

Miss Cicely and Miss Winifred Mordaunt, youngest daughters of Sir Charles Mordaunt, 10th Baronet and his wife Mary Louise Cholmondeley of Walton Hall, Warwick. Both worked at the front during the First World War - Winifred confirmed as having been a member of the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (FANYs). Cicely received the Order of Elisabeth for excellent work during an epidemic of typhoid and Winifred won the Croix de Guerre for gallant conduct during an air raid. In French Army orders it was stated that Miss Winifred Mordaunt "showed an absolute disregard of danger." Date: 1918

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