ENGLISH 21ST REGIMENT HUSSARS/LANCERS OFFICERS SABRETACHE.

A very hard to find extremely nice condition officers Identified full dress sabretache of the 21st Hussars. Originally created in Bengal by the East India Company as the 3rd Bengal European Light Cavalry, it was placed under the command of the British crown in 1848 and formerly moved into the British Army 1862 where it was designated as a Hussar Regiment and titled The 21st Regiment of Hussars, in 1897 it was re-designated as the 21st Lancers, the regiment still retained its original colours of French grey facings, the regiment then went on after 1897 for a very short period with their glorious charge at the Battle of Omdurman in September 1898, in which Winston Churchill was attached. The French grey backing cloth absolutely excellent without any moth damage, the gilt to the heavy bullion wire weave has toned, it is complete with its message pouch and its three rings for attaching the suspension straps.after our purchase of the Sabertache we found in the message pouch was a visiting card from Mr Charles J Clerk 21 st Hussars,it now appears that Lieut G.J.Clerk was the Signalling Officer and second in command of A Squadron of the 21 st lancers at the famous battle of Omdurman he was mentioned in dispatches for this action, and written about by the accompanying Officer of Winston Churchill who as a Officer of the 4 th Hussars was attached to the 21 st Lancers at the battle, Churchill writes in his book " The River War " about the charge and mentions Lieut Clerk who rode very close to him in A Squadron.
it appears that other artifacts of Lieut Clerk have come to the collectors market, a Verniers compass with his initials is the hands of a collector, his Foul weather lance cap with another and in 2008 his Queens Sudan medal group of medals with his First world war trio group came for sale via auction for the estimate of between £ 2 - £3000 pounds which is staggering amount for a medal group of this type , which only illustrates the importance of the battle of Omdurman , in 1902 Clerk became the Aide -de-camp to the Governor of Trinidad and obviously served in WW 1 we believe as a Remount depot officer, further research highly possible, we have discovered various mentions of Clerk in period and post period articles which will be presented with the sabertache

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