LIEUT .-COLONEL VICTOR JOHN GREENWOOD, M .C. Commanding 10th Royal Hussars (Prince of Wales's Own) . X ROYAL HUSSARS GAZETTE VOL. VIII . No. 3. DECEMBER, 1928. CONTENTS. ,LIEUT.-COLONEL VICTOR JOHN GREENWOOD, PAGE M .C . Frontispiece LEST WE FORGET " (continued) . 119 PAGE How I BECAME AN A .B. AT SEA, OCTOBER, LIEUT .-COLONEL VICTOR JOHN GREENWOOD, 121 95 EXTRACTS FROM ACTUAL LETTERS BY SOL- EDITORIAL (illustrated) . 97 DIERS ' WIVES TO A PAYMASTER . 122 REMINISCENCES OF FIFTY YEARS AGO (contd .) 101 MEMBERS OF REGIMENTAL ASSOCIATION AN103 HOUR OF TERROR . .. SERVING WITH THE REGIMENT 123 A TALE OF THE TENTH HUSSARS 103 EQUINE124 BIOGRAPHIES, No . 3 POLO NOTES . 105 WONDERS OF THE WORLD . 126 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE . IO6 SOMEWHERE IN EGYPT . I27 SPORTS108 NEWS . .. " THE AUTUMN DOUBLE " . 128 OBITUARY 110 ARMISTICE128 DAY . .. THE ACTIVITIES OF " A " SQUADRON 110 THINGS WE WANT TO KNOW . 129 'I111 HE OFFICERS ' MESS (Photo) . .. MR129 . ALFRED TEMPLEMAN . .. CONCERNING " C " SQUADRON . .112 A TRADER . 130 SHORT BURSTS FROM THE MACHINE GUN LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS (continued) . 131 SQUADRON . 112 PER ARDUA AD TERRAM . 131 FRONT BLOCK— " M .G ." SQUADRON (Photo) 113 COMPETITION . 132 REGIMENTAL SYCES (Photo) . 115 SERGEANTS ' MESS NOTES . 1 33 FLUTTERS FROM " H .Q ." WING . 115 CORPORALS ' MESS NOTES . 1 33 BAND NOTES . I I6 REGIMENTAL GAZETTE . 1 34 PICTURES ! ! . 117 LATE SCRATCHINGS FROM THE EDITOR ' S PEN 137 RACING IN EGYPT . 118 LIEUT.-COLONEL VICTOR ever been seconded, but he was actually born in the Regiment . This was when JOHN GREENWOOD, M .C. the Regiment was . stationed at York in 1888, and his father was then a Captain. OUR present Commanding Officer, The Colonel first went to school in 1898 Lieut .-Col . Victor John Greenwood, at Ludgrove in Hertfordshire . From is the first real Tenth Hussar to command there he went to Eton, where he was at the Regiment since Lieut.-Col. Crichton Mr. Impey 's House until 1906, when he commanded it thirteen years. ago . Not went to Christ Church (" The House ") only has the Prince of Wales's Feathers at Oxford. been the only Regimental cap-badge he It had always been intended that his has ever worn, and at no period has he career should be that of a Regular soldier 96 THE X ROYAL HUSSARS GAZETTE in his father's old regiment, but, like In the winter of 1920, the whole of the many others, his parents considered the Regiment moved to Hare Park Camp at experience of university life of more value the Curragh. than entering the Army via Sandhurst. On December 3rd, 1920, he received .A. at After receiving the degree of B his Majority. Oxford, he obtained a university commis- sion in the Regiment, and was gazetted Despite the unpleasant duties which the Second-Lieutenant on February 2nd, 1910. Regiment was from time to time called A month later, he sailed in the Royal upon to perform, the Colonel thoroughly enjoyed his service in Ireland . The Indian Marine Ship Dufferin for Bombay, arriving there on Easter Sunday, and hunting from the Curragh was excellent, reaching the Regiment on the following and his diary of the season 1921-22 records Thursday . He was posted to the 4th no less than forty-four days' hunting Troop of '` C " Squadron . This squadron before February, when the Regiment came home . Another of the reasons was then commanded by Capt . the Hon. which may have made the Colonel enjoy W. G. Cadogan . Sergt . Burdett, who life on the Curragh were the many visits afterwards gained a commission in the Regiment, was his first Troop Sergeant. that he paid to a certain house some way across the Curragh Race-Course, which The Colonel had his first leave to often nearly caused him to be late for England in 1912 . In the meantime, the dinner and many times kept his Squadron Regiment moved to South Africa . When Quartermaster - Sergeant fretting and the Colonel rejoined from leave, they fuming with certain papers to be signed. were quartered at Potchefstroom . He The sequel to these visits was the happy was, then given command of the Machine Gun Detachment and the Reserve Troop. event which took place on February 12th, 1923, when Miss May Annie Church When war broke out, Col . Greenwood (sister of Lieut . Church) became Mrs. commanded the Machine Gun Detach- Greenwood. ment and, as recorded in the last number of the GAZETTE, was with the Gunners He continued to command the Chestnut when, under very amusing circumstances, Squadron until Major Gosling- had to they fired their first burst at the Germans. leave the Regiment owing to ill-health, On June 2nd, 1916, he was awarded the when he took over the ,duties of Regi- Military Cross . From June, 1916, except mental Second-in-Command. for a short time when he commanded This was in December, 1926, when the C " Squadron, until December, 1919, Regiment was stationed at Aldershot. he was Adjutant. Both Old Comrades and serving mem- At the Battle of Arras, in 1917, when bers of the Regiment were delighted the 10th Hussars, in conjunction with when, in 1927, we knew that the King had the Essex Yeomanry, captured approved of a real Tenth Hussar com- Monchy-le-Preux, he was wounded, and, whilst manding- the Regiment again. laying in a shell hole with others who were also wounded, a German shell When the Regiment sailed on foreign crashed right into the side of the shell service last October, there was no one so hole . It was a dud! A good many pleased with the prospect as our Com- of the occupants of that shell hole are manding Officer . To have his Regiment still thanking their lucky stars that that filled tip to strength, immune from the shell ,did not explode. ravages of yearly drafts, free from the When the Regiment went to Ireland in bogey of mechanization ; his own to train 1920, during the troublesome " Sinn into a perfect fighting machine in a Feinner " times, he was Second-in-Com- cavalry country, was the fulfilment of his mand of " B " Squadron, under Major life's ambition. Neilson, D .S .O. The Colonel is now the father of two That summer, whilst this squadron was little " Shiners," and who knows but that at Limerick, Major Neilson retired, and one day they will follow in his footsteps the command of the squadron was given and have the honour to command the to Col . (then Capt .) Greenwood . Prince of Wales's' Own Tenth Hussars! THE X ROYAL HUSSARS GAZETTE 97 EDITORIAL. sun and sand and our friends at home in snow and ice (perhaps. ). In the name of the GAZETTE, "` A Editor: Happy Christmas. CAPT . C. K . DAVY, M .C. * * * Chief Sub-Editor: It seemed that summer was at an end S .Q .M .S . A . STANDING. on the morning that we left Hounslow bound on the adventure of foreign service. Sub-Editor: The pale yellow leaves from the poplar R .Q .M .S. F. O . MASON. trees on the cricket pitch were falling one by one, and the sky was obscured by Hon . Secretary and Treasurer: mournful grey clouds . The atmosphere SERGT . WORMALD . was dank and chilly autumnal . No sooner had the Band reached the barrack Regimental Gazette Office: gate than the heavens gave way to a ABDUL MOUNEIM BARRACKS, snivelling shower which, a few minutes ABBASSIA, CAIRO, EGYPT. later, increased to a woeful downpour. \V wished that they could have taken a Printers: lesson in stoicism from the wives and MESSRS, GALE : & POLDEN, LTD ., sweethearts who bore themselves so WELLINGTON WORKS, bravely, for it was no joke setting out on ALDERSHOT. our railway journey soaked to the skin. ENGLAND. Since then, new experiences have been showered upon us . Most of us were sea- Bankers: sick, lost our caps, bumped our heads, and LLOYDS BANK, periodically fell out of our hammocks on 6, PALL MALL, board ship . At Port Said, and on the LONDON, S .W .I. railway journey to Cairo, we got our first ENGLAND. glimpse of the East and Eastern people, the desert (just sand and then more sand, and after that " Sweet Fanny Adam "), HE picture of an artist at work on camels, goats, donkeys and the filthy T his Christmas magazine cover while native villages . At Moascar we saw Lake seated in an August Bank Holiday crowd Timsah, where the children of Egypt gave on Margate sands, is a never-failing Pharaoh's pursuing " red-caps " the slip. source of amusement in the comic papers. Many of us have had " Gyppy Tummy," Could you see your Editor in shirt- and all of us have had three rounds with sleeves, perspiring freely, a fly-whisk in the Regimental Tailor about the fit of our one hand and pencil in the other, starting drill clothing . (What man or beast was this Christmas number, your feelings picked upon by 11 .M. Clothing Depart- would he only those of sympathy . He ment as being a model of the average gazes wistfully across the sun-drenched British soldier, we cannot imagine . If maidan in search of inspiriation . Instead the average jacket we are supplied with of holly berries and robin redbreasts, fitted him or it perfectly, Mr . Epstein has there are palm trees and hovering kites; still a lot to learn about the grotesque ! ) instead of rosy-checked bemuffled school- Most of us have learnt the most necessary boys sliding, a cluster of dirty garden- half-dozen Egyptian words, such as Esma. boys asleep in a patch of shade . Yet Maffish Impshi Wallad, Quies, and Christmas is a bare three weeks away! Falush . All have learnt that to let one 's Without snow and robins .