a SKIRMISH WITH THE BOERS NEAR KIMBERLEY BY A TROOP OF CAVALRY SCOUTS ATTACHED TO GENERAL FRENCH'S COLUMN [Main]


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  • Year: 1900
  • Runtime: 3 mins
  • Description: The troopers gallop towards the camera, regular cavalry first, followed by yeomanry. There is a kopje behind them on the horizon. The column gallops up to a thorn hedge, halts beside it and deploys a Maxim machine gun from a pack saddle. The rest of the men dismount and come forward to form a firing line on the thorn hedge while the horseholders take the horses a little way back. The signal to retire is then given, the horses come forward, the men remount and gallop off.
    British mounted troops staging a combat manoeuvre, not far from Kimberley, South Africa, May-July 1900.
  • Keywords: EFG1914 / World War I / British Army, cavalry / British Army, yeomanry / combat [simulated], British - cavalry / weapons, British - smallarm: Maxim machine gun / 01/2(68).0 / boer war / South Africa & Kimberley area
  • Provider: Imperial War Museums
  • Rights: In Copyright / Imperial War Museums
  • Production company: Warwick Trading Company
  • Colour: Black & White
  • Sound: Without sound