Thursday 22nd June 1916: When not in the trenches the members
of the Beds Yeomanry are engaged in cavalry work, and to prevent staleness, a
Divisional Show was recently held, in which some of the crack regular cavalry
competed. Among the entrants was a section of our county regiment, who chose
the class in which the conditions were that the entrants should go into action
with guns on pack horses and jump two fences with them and out of action. This
was open to all the Machine Gun Sections of the Division.
The members
were aware that they were “hot stuff” at this, but little thought they stood a
chance against the regular sections who had been at it for years. The Beds
Yeomanry were the only Territorial Section competing, and it is a pleasure to
record that they came out on top, gaining 94 points out of a possible 100. Hats
off to the MG section of the Bedfordshire Yeomanry!
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