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a member of a European light cavalry unit

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No son of Adam in this present imperfect world can mix the Hussars' champagne with the Hussars' brandy by five and eight glasses of each without remembering the pit whence he was digged and descending thither.
There is but one horse in the White Hussars, and his portrait hangs outside the door of the mess-room.
The next time that they have no engagements on hand the White Hussars intend to go to St.
Instead of echoing Dirkovitch's sigh of regret, it is sad to record that the White Hussars livelily exhibited un-Christian delight and other emotions, hardly restrained by their sense of hospitality.
"Do you know that you are Limmason -Lieutenant Limmason of the White Hussars?"
But that was a matter suddenly and swiftly taken from the loving hands of the White Hussars. The lieutenant had returned only to go away again three days later, when the wail of the Dead March, and the tramp of the squadrons, told the wondering Station, who saw no gap in the mess-table, that an officer of the regiment had resigned his new-found commission.
Little Mildred answered nothing, but watched the North Star and hummed a selection from recent Simla burlesque that had much delighted the White Hussars. It ran -
A piece of plate representing a mounted hussar in full uniform caught his eye.
STRATFORD LEAGUE JOHN Price and Alison Stewart were both unbeaten for Snitterfield against JLM Hussars, in the Stratford League, in a 6-4 victory.
STRATFORD League leaders JLM Hussars suffered their first defeat of the season to Blazing Paddles, with Nello Mauri unbeaten, Chris Dickens winning twice and Wilf Chan taking a win in a 6-4 success.
Former Queen's Royal Hussars officer John Winton died on Tuesday following a collision on the street where his mother lives.
The casualty list makes sombre reading: The 4th Light Dragoons lost 79 from 118 men; 8th Hussars lost 66 out of 104; 11th Hussars lost 85 out of 110; 13th Light Dragoons lost 69 out of 130; 17th Lancers - motto, "Death or Glory" - lost 110 out of 145.
The first Canadian to be awarded a Victoria Cross was Alexander Roberts Dunn, while serving with the British Army's 11th Hussars at the Battle of Balaclava.
As the gangster movie Get Carter progressed with its busy filming schedule, screen star Michael Caine, his co-stars, a film crew, and the massed ranks of the Pelaw Hussars juvenile jazz band all descended on Coburg Street, Gateshead.
The exhibition opened to the public on Saturday and tells the 300-year story of The Light Dragoons and the Queen's Own Yeomanry (Northumberland Hussars).