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Tango01 Supporting Member of TMP15 Mar 2025 5:06 p.m. PST

… Between Mounted Lancers

"ON THE morning of Sept. 7, 1914, Lieutenant-Colonel David Campbell, commander of the British Army's 9th Lancers, was reconnoitering with about 30 men near the French village of Montcel-Frétoy, when he heard rifle fire in the distance.

It was the second day of the Battle of the Marne, the massive Allied effort to blunt the German drive on Paris and thwart the Kaiser's plans for a quick and decisive victory on the Western Front. The trench war had not yet begun, and cavalry on both sides still had a crucial role to play.

Campbell was the epitome of the swashbuckling cavalry officer. A champion jockey and polo player, his nickname was "Soarer" after the horse on which he had won the Grand National in 1896. Just days earlier on Aug. 24, he had led the 9th Lancers in a costly and futile charge against German guns at Elouges, surviving unscathed…."

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