Overall: 30cm (12in) x 30cm (12in) x 11cm (4.5in)
Provenance: Lt Col GCA Breitmeyer MC, late 7th Hussars
Patinated bronze. Model of an officer’s charger. Raised on an ebonised plinth applied to front with presenation plaque inscribed ‘Presented by the Officers of the / 6th (Horsed) Cavalry Training Regiment /1939-1940’, and another to the reverse listing the donors, including Major The Earl of Carnarvon and Major B.A.J. Peto MP. Maker’s label of The Goldsmiths & Silversmiths Company, 112 Regent Street, London.
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Lt Col GCA Breitmeyer MC was educated at Winchester and Sandhurst, and joined the 7th Hussars at Hounslow in 1911, shortly before the regiment sailed for India. He commanded C Squadron when the 7th Hussars went to Mesopotamia in 1917. He and his squadron distinguished themselves in the operations on the Tigris in October 1918, when for over 24 hours they held off a considerably superior force of Turks who were attempting to outflank the 11th Cavalry Brigade. For this action, Breitmeyer was awarded the Military Cross. He commanded the 7th Hussars from 1932-35, and was recalled in 1939, to command of the 6th (Horsed) Cavalry Training Regiment, at Maidstone, Kent. It was one of three similarly named regiments that were subsumed into the Royal Armoured Corps on mechanisation of the horsed cavalry in 1939-1940.