CHAPTER VIII 



HOG HUNTERS' HALL OR THE TENTH HUSSARS 

 IN PURNEAH, 1909 



By Colonel JOHN VAUGHAN, D.S.O. 



THE 10th Hussars were not fortunate in their 

 stations during their Indian tour, 1902-1912, being 

 stationed at Mhow and Rawal Pindi. There was 

 a little pig-sticking to be had at Mhow, but the 

 civil administration of the Indore State permitted 

 the natives to shoot pig, and consequently the sport 

 deteriorated. However, most of us were agreed 

 that it was by far the best sport in the East, and 

 took every opportunity of going either to Muttra 

 or to the Guzerat or Kadir meetings. It was my 

 usual plan to take about a month's leave after the 

 Inter - Regimental Polo Tournament, and devote 

 myself to pig-sticking. In 1908 I determined to 

 organize a regimental camp in Bengal for the follow- 

 ing spring. It took me about six months and much 

 correspondence before we brought off our projected 

 trip. 



Curiously enough I eventually selected a locality 

 recommended to me by a friend in England, Mr. 

 Charles Miller of Rugby, who had formerly been a 

 planter near Motihari. He and Mr. Keith Marsham, 

 secretary of the Cairo Polo Club, wrote me accounts 



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