"Did artillery team riders wear gloves or just bare hands" Topic
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| Mike the Analyst | 14 Oct 2020 1:43 p.m. PST |
Most images I have found show bare hands rather than gloves. Napoleonics mostly show gauntlets or gloves. Any advice or opinion on this please. |
Frederick  | 14 Oct 2020 2:45 p.m. PST |
Now that is a very good question! You would suppose that at least some of the team would wear gauntlets, but is not much evidence of this; I reviewed some of my sources including one with a number of contemporary photos and etchings – while mounted teams are not common, the few that I have seen seem to show bare hands except for the occasional officer with gauntlets No question that working the guns was done bare-handed, and it seems that was the case for the artillery teams too |
| rmaker | 14 Oct 2020 3:29 p.m. PST |
I would suggest that they did, unless they were masochists who enjoyed having their palms cut to ribbons. |
| Garryowen | 15 Oct 2020 5:51 a.m. PST |
Gauntlets were not an item of issue from any evidence I have seen. Reins rarely are that hard in hands. Hollywood loves them. Tom |
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