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A
LIEUTENANT with the face of his sister came over to the ante-room fire and lit a cigarette. It had been whispered to me that this child had performed fearless deeds in France with the cavalry tanks.
He talked to me about modern war in a cold, dis- passionate way. It was posi- tively hair-raising to hear such a gentle, lady-like young man describe horrors without a trace of emotion.
He might have been describ- ing a vicarage tea party. His was the volce, and his the eyes, of a disillusioned genera- tion,
"It beats me why people in this country haven't been told some of the filthy tricks the Germans played on the French civilians,” he said. "I should have thought it would have been good stuff for our Minis- try of Information; but I sup- pose it's not gentlemanly enough for them.
"Tough Guys"
"You know that tanks lie up at night in what we call harbours, generally a lonely wood or a little village. The German tank crews are taught to go without food and drink for a whole day, sometimes longer. They like doing it; too.
Tough guys--you know the idea?.
"Well, the consequence ja that, when night comes, they are hungry as wolves. They find a harbour, stuff their bellies till they can hardly move and go to sleep. That's the time for the Home Guard to get them; but France hadn't got a Home Guard,
"Now what happened more than once was this. A few German tanks would arrive in a lonely village just as it was getting dark. The villagers would gather round and stand about watching them.
"Suddenly, without warn- ing, a light automatic would be turned on them, killing per- haps five and wounding maybe seven, and the rest would rush away and lock their doors,
"Then, having deliberately terrorised the village-locked It up with fear, so to speak, for the night-the Germans would post one sentry over the dead and dying and-go to sleep. Lovable people, the Jerries,
Cavalry To-day
It had stopped raining, and he took me out to look at the tanks.
The regiment was a crack. cavalry regiment that has been charging through English his- tory for the last three cen- turies.
Just to mention the name of this regiment or to see it in print, fa to have a mental pic- ture of cavalry) in line, neck to neck, galloping all out the horses with distended nostrils,
and the troopers, some bare- hended, leaning forward with drawn sabres. That has been the function of the regiment in war since it was formed long ago.
Now you will find these cavalrymen, well hidden in the English countryside, tending a number of big, muddy mon- sters, from whose turrets pro- trude guns,
"Done Proud"
We saw a number of heavy armoured chargers. being groomed in a pine wood,
A young troop officer came up, the same kind of young man who in former days would have been walking the horse- lines in riding-boots and spurs; now he wore battle- dress.
Like most of the regiment, he had been in France, fight- ing in a tank from the moment of landing until the evacuation. He described to me the tragedy of having to retreat, leaving all vehicles and equipment on the other side.
"But now we're re-equipped to the last button," he said, "and much better equipped than we were when we went out. The W.O. has done us proud. Look at our new tanks! They're beauties.".
(Good heavens, I thought, this is how men used to talk about horses! He'll be asking me to run my hand down the mechanical equivalent of a hack.)
"I tell you one thing," he went on. "Our new tanks are about 50 per cent. better than those we left in France. They contain all sorts of improve- ments suggested by our experi- ences out there. So, if Jerry comes over, we'll be waiting for him..
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As we climbed over, the tanks and squeezed our way into them, I felt for the first time that there is a queer new romance about mechanised war, and, oddly enough, it links up with the old romance of the armoured knight.
The young men who venture. into peril in a modern tank have more in common with the knight in plato armour who thundered across the battle-
fields of the Middle Ages thun they have with the infantry of even the last war.
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If the tank had slayed in stage of development it had reach- ed, say, at Cambral during the inoment of its first great triumph,
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it might still have remained just that: a great battering ram.
But it did not stay there. added speed to armour, sooner had it done so lancers, the dragoons, and the hussars were fated to make their last charge a gallop out of modern warfare,
I think mechanked cavalry are perhaps the most interesting sec- tion of the Royal Armoured Corps, because they are converted conscr valives; dichards who have been inevitable obliged to
to accept the tendencies of a new age.
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A mounted cavalry soldier, even In a desert, has now become archaic as a cab-driver, or as onc of those Victorias which might be seen before the War in Hyde Park: picturesque, romantic, good to look upon, bringing into this dull age a little colour from another world, but, after all, definitely out of date. I wondered what the younger Heneration of
cavalrynien, really think about mechanisation. Do they mourn their lost chargers, or are they content to charge on wheels and tracks?
"Have you any men who were in the regiment before mechanisa- tion?" I asked.
They passed the word along for Sergeant Brown.
"Do you prefer machines to horses?" I asked him.
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Rather to my astonishment, for it was not the reply I had expected, Sergeant Brown spoke as follows:
"Every time," he said. "I look at it like this. In the old days It was always stables, feeding, water- ing:
burnishing bits and bridles
and cleaning saddles. A trooper's life was one long fatigue.
"But now we're mechanised, we "don't have to take the tanks out to water, or feed them, or shine them up with
a bumisher. That's big thing, be- one thing; and it's enuse it means that cavalryman in modern war has got to be some- thing more than a groom.
"Then there's
thing. another Take cavalry in the last war. Was it messed about? Was it chucked into the line dismounted, neither one thing nor the other? It was, simply because you couldn't use cavalry.
'Give Me Tanks'
"Also, let me say this: No one who's fond of horses will shed a tear because they don't do into action. A cavalry charge in the old days wasn't what pictures crack
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up to be, Not by a long way. The sound of horses screaming, and the sight of them lying about blown to pieces wasn't anything is boast about; and one of the that I didn't take over there. Inst Summer was French and Belgian cavalry with their horses hardly able to move and the saddles stick- to their backs. No? Give me
Packs. No?
I was told that probably the majority of the younger men in the mechanized cavalry think tka that Mony of them became sick of cavalrymen's life in the years before mechantsation, when the cavalry was starved while the War Omee made up its mind what to do
with it.
The result was that res
"regiments fell below strength, and every man found himself. 'responsible for three and four horses. To such men the arrival of tanks cume.as a welcome rellet from the band- age of perpetual atables,
Same Spirit
What was an ́” armoured knight but tho answer of de- fence to attack; first the knight in chain mail protect ing himself against the shaft of the long-bow, then the more heavily armoured knight pro-famous in the old tecting himself against the musket ball." And what is the tank but an answer to the machine gun?
It was the machine gun,,, that abolished, tha cavalry charge, Just":¦ unit created the tank: an armoured monster dealgaid at first, only to cross, truscha and, batter down. barbed wire entanglements in the faco of machine gun, fre
But the cavalry is not dead, because the "cavalry spirit" lives on in the mechanised regiment The function of cavalry tanks · la the same as that of mounted cavalry. They require all tha speed, and dash which made them
days. you'd be surprised to know
really changed," now long we have
ond of the officers. This kind of war is really a cavalry war, a war of movement and surprise."
So the spirit that thus, always animated tho British -- cavalry. directs the tanke. The cavalry bas been remounted on from horses, -
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