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Posted by WarsawPact (U1831709) on Monday, 5th July 2010
21/1/1941 Keru, East Africa
Amedeo Guillet, the Italian officer who led the charge, died last month aged 101.
Sounds like a remarkable life...
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Absolutely fascinating - the sort of obit one only reads in the Telegraph. Thanks for posting.
I have, in a book, a photo of the Imperial Yeomanry in the Middle East in 1940, still mounted. I believe the last British units were mechanised in 1941-2
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Weren't they still using mule trains in Burma?
Or maybe doesn't that count, strictly speaking?
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"...Or maybe doesn't that count, strictly speaking?..."
Well, no.
A mule train does not count as a cavalry charge, even if I am not being terribly strict.
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Correction: the photo in the book is of the Queen's Own Yorkshire Dragoons - a yeomanry regiment, but quite distinct from the Imperial Yeomanry which had been raised for the 2nd Boer War.
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"A mule train does not count as a cavalry charge, even if I am not being terribly strict."
Not even if it falls off a mountain on top of you?
Here's some newsreel footage of the war in Abyssinia:
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