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With the outbreak of the Second World War, the available resources of the gun trade had been mobilised to recondition a reserve of Pattern 1914 Enfield rifles, and in 1940 the Parker-Hale Arms Company was founded. Additional premises were acquired "for the duration" of the war and, under the management of Arthur Hale, a large reconditioning ...
M1779 Hussar carbine: Private manufacturers: 1779 Girandoni air rifle: Private manufacturers: 1780 M1781 Trombon: Private manufacturers: 1781 Infanteriegewehr M1784 musket: Private manufacturers: 1784 M1788 Cavalry rifle: Private manufacturers: 1788 M1789 Cavalry rifle: Private manufacturers: 1789 M1795 Jäger rifle: Private manufacturers: 1795 ...
Swedish hussar regiments 1895–1910 5th Mounted Rifles Otago Hussars from New Zealand, 1911. On the eve of World War I, there were still hussar regiments in the British, [49] Canadian, French, [50] New Zealand, Spanish, [51] German, [52] Russian, [53] Dutch, [54] Danish, [55] Swedish, Romanian, and Austro-Hungarian armies. In most respects ...
On 17 April 1901, the regiment was renamed as the Royal North Devonshire Imperial Yeomanry and reorganised in four squadrons and a machine gun section. On 1 April 1908, the regiment was renamed for the final time as the Royal North Devon Yeomanry and transferred to the Territorial Force , trained and equipped as hussars .
In the United Kingdom busbies are of two kinds: (a) the hussar busby, cylindrical in shape, with a bag and cap lines (cords to connect the cap to the tunic); this is worn by hussars and the Royal Horse Artillery; (b) the rifle busby, a folding cap of astrakhan (curly lambswool) formerly worn by rifle regiments, in shape somewhat resembling a ...
The original armament consisted of a single 66 mm (2.6 in) L/45 Skoda gun [a] [b] and seven 47 mm (1.9 in) L/44 guns, with two 450 mm (18 in) torpedo tubes, one in the well between the turtleback and the bridge, and one aft. [2] [4] The 47mm guns were later replaced by 66 mm L/40 guns.
Redesignated on 15 March 1920 as The King's (Nova Scotia) Mounted Rifles. Redesignated on 1 December 1925 as the King's Canadian Hussars. Amalgamated on 1 December 1936 with C Company of The Colchester and Hants Regiment and B Company of the 6th Machine Gun Battalion, CMGC, and redesignated as the King's Canadian Hussars (Armoured Car).
The Otago Mounted Rifle Regiment was a New Zealand Mounted Regiment formed for service during World War I. It was formed from units of the Territorial Force consisting of the 5th Mounted Rifles (Otago Hussars) , the 7th (Southland) Mounted Rifles and the 12th (Otago) Mounted Rifles .