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D.S.O., all of whom were in South Africa. Captain 

 Congreve, who won the V.C. at Colenso, is another 

 keen Rifle Brigade polo player. 



The Yeomanry have furnished us with many fine 

 polo players, such as Major F. B. Mildmay, M.P., 

 who won the Champion Cup with the Peats no 

 less than seven times ; Major Jenkinson, D.S.O., late 

 of the Derbyshire Regiment, who was a well-known 

 Lucknow expert in 1885 >" Lord Valentia, C.B., who 

 began his polo career in the loth Hussars, and for 

 many years has been one of the chief members of the 

 Hurlingham Polo Committee ; both he and Colonel 

 St. Quintin, also of the loth Hussars, played in the 

 first English match (p. 3) ; Lord Alwynne Compton, 

 who played for the loth Hussars in 1882 ; Colonel 

 F. Meyrick, C.B., who played for the 15th Hussars in 

 1890 ; Colonel Burn, C.B. who played for the Royals 

 in the final at Hurlingham in 1890 ; Major Gascoigne, 

 D.S.O., late of the Blues, where his name appears 

 in the Regimental team of 1877 ; Lieut. -Colonel 

 Harrison, D.S.O., late of the Scots Greys; Herbert 

 Wilson, D.S.O. ; Clive Wilson ; U. O. Thynne, 

 D.S.O. ; Godfrey Heseltine, the well-known No. i of 

 the Old Cantabs ; Clarence Wilson ; C. G. M. Adam ; 

 F. and J. Bellville ; Banbury ; the brothers Gold ; G. 

 B. Milne ; and many others. 



The Indian Army has sent many good players to 

 this war, as, for instance. Colonel Beatson, C.B., 

 w^ho taught the great Jodhpur team how to play ; 

 Colonel Younghusband, C.B., who wrote a capital 

 book on Polo many years ago ; poor Brazier Creagh, 

 whom I knew as a fine player in 1887, when he was 

 in the 9th B.L. ; Captain F. A. Maxwell, V.C. and 



