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equipment, but it was not attached to the cavalry but to the infantry. Hach 
infantry division had two batteries, and those two batteries of the light division 
were made up of ‘‘C” Troop, R.H.A., and a field battery. Up to the 25th of 
October, 1854, ““C ” Troop remained with the light division up in the front, as 
the lecturer has pointed out. On that morning when Balaclava was threatened an 
order came for the artillery of the light division—the 4th division and I think the 
83rd division—to move down to Balaclava. The distance from the light division 
to the heavy cavalry camp in the plain before Balaclava was five miles and “C0” 
Troop covered this distance much quicker than the field batteries and arrived in 
time to take part in the heavy cavalry action as already described. 
After the 25th of October, 1854, “‘C”’ Troop never returned to its old camp 
with the light division; but remained with the cavalry, and was with the cavalry 
on the heights on the 5th November covering Inkerman. 
Again at the Tchernaya on the 16th of August, 1855, ““C”’ Troop was with the 
British cavalry and Horse Artillery in reserve. After the fall of Sebastopol on 
the 8th September, 1855, a cavalry division of 40 squadrons was formed at Eupa- 
toria to the north of Sebastopol to threaten the Russian communication to which 
three Horse Artillery batteries were attached. There was a Turkish Horse Artillery 
battery with comparatively light pieces and only four horses in the team I think ; 
there was a French Horse Artillery battery with six horses in the team, armed with 
the piece that had been an 8-pr. and was now bored up to throw a 12-pr. projectile, 
and considered to be good up to a mile ; and then there was “‘C” Troop, R.H.A., 
with its 9-prs. of 39 and 40 cwt., with 8 horses in the team and 10 mounted men 
in the detachments. 
During the five weeks in October and November, 1855, that this force remained 
at Hupatoria there were three reconnaissances in which the whole cavalry took part 
supported by a strong Franco-Turkish infantry division. There were also several 
smaller reconnaissances made by portions of the forces. The country was quite 
perfect for cavalry and Horse Artillery to work over, an undulating grassy steppe, 
but water was scarce and very bad and the force could not on this account remain 
out beyond the third day on either occasion. 
The experience gained by “‘C”’ Troop even working over this very favourable 
ground and with excellent horses in good condition was that the weight behind 
the teams was quite excessive and that both the extra pair of horses in the team 
and the great weight of the equipment would effectually bar co-operation with 
cavalry under normal circumstances. 
Gentlemen, we do not want guns that can just be rolled up into position and 
there stand and blaze away at long ranges ; we want to come to short ranges and 
to be able to keep up with the cavalry; and I think, sir, that the whole question 
of the co-operation of guns with cavalry turns upon the weight that we put behind 
the teams (loud applause). 
Lrnvt.-Ginprat Kerra Fraser, C.M.G.—Sir Evelyn Wood, and gentlemen. 
I must first say a few words of thanks to the lecturer for the kind way in which he 
spoke about myself and the interest that I have taken in Horse Artillery acting with 
cavalry ; for I have always been led to look wpon Horse Artillery as the right-arm 
of the cavalry. Major May has spoken of my father’s services at Waterloo. Ihave 
always been told that my father’s greatest friend was Sir Augustus Frazer, who 
was no relation but whose name is I think pretty well-known here as having com- 
Bp nacd the Horse Artillery in that battle (applause). My father named a son after 
im. 
Gentlemen, I must say that nothing can be a greater satisfaction to a cavalry 
soldier than to see such an audience as there is here to-day assembled to listen to 
such a lecture as we have had. I look upon the last three or four years as a time 
of revival of the association between Horse Artillery and cavalry. 
