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Politics - 1970 General Election - Rear Admiral Morgan Giles - Old Alresford, Winchester

Rear admiral Morgan Giles, Conservative candidate for Winchester, arrives on his horse Gaffer to cast his General Election vote at the polling station in Old Alresford, where he lives. The Rear admiral, who champions the preservation of rural England, represented Winchester in the last parliament

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Jockeys as troopers in the 19th Hussars, WW1

Leading jockeys pose for a photograph before leaving for the front for active service as troopers of the 19th Hussars in 1914. From left to right are: - Top row - R. Arbuthnot, N. Nutt, A. Arbuthnot, Sergeant K. Stewart, F. Tweed, C. Weston, Charles Lister, middle row - G. Heasman, H. Davis, P. Roberts, Lord Torrington, Lieutenant P. P. Curtis, Sergeant J. Kinally, Percy Woodland, Tyrwhitt Drake, R. Morgan bottom row - F. Giles, J. McMaster, J. Bloomfield, G. Jones. Among the rider pictured here, Herbert Tyrwhitt-Drake was killed in action, March 1915 and Percy Woodland, who had won the Grand National in 1903 on Drumcree and 1913 on Covercoat, survived the war despite being shot down in Egypt in December 1916 while serving with the Royal Flying Corps. George Byng, Lord Torrington, a gentleman jockey and race horse owner who had married the actress and Gaiety Girl Eleanor Souray in 1910, was taken prisoner-of-war in Philippopolis while serving with the Royal Naval Air Service, but survived to live a somewhat scandalous life punctuated by debt and affairs. Date: 1914

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Digitally restored Civil War print of General Lee and other Confederate Generals

Digitally restored Civil War print showing General Lee and other prominent Confederate Generals of the Civil War on horseback. Included are, Bragg, Pemberton, Beauregard, Fitz Hugh Lee, J.E.B. Stuart, Wade Hampton, Joe Johnston, Breckenridge, Jubal Early, A.S. Johnston, E.K. Smith, R.E. Lee, Hardee, Longstreet, Nathan Bedford Forrest, J.B. Hood, A.P. Hill, Stonewall Jackson, J.H. Morgan, Polk, Mosby

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