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Army School Of Equitation
The Army School of Equitation was a British Army school at Weedon Bec, Weedon in Northamptonshire, created in 1922 and closed in 1940. In the worlds of cavalry and horses it was commonly called simply Weedon. History In December 1922, the Cavalry School, based at Netheravon in Wiltshire, was amalgamated with the Royal Artillery Riding Establishment to become the Army School of Equitation, which was given a military camp at Weedon, alongside the Military Ordnance Depot there dating from 1805, the central small arms depot of the British Army. The first Commandant was Charles Walwyn, Colonel Charles Walwyn, known as "Taffy".John Board, ''Horse and Pencil'' (1950), p. 36 The choice of location gave an area with good riding country, in the heart of England, served not only by the Grand Union Canal and Weedon railway station but also by a branch line to the military depot. The school came to be seen as the leading centre of British horsemanship and was described as "the Mecca of cava ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Weedon Bec - Depot Entrance - Geograph
Weedon may refer to: Places England * Weedon, Buckinghamshire, a village * Weedon Bec, usually called Weedon, a village in Northamptonshire ** Weedon railway station, a former railway station located outside of Weedon Bec * Weedon, a locality in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire Other places * Weedon, Quebec, a municipality in Canada * Weedon Field, an airport near Eufaula, Alabama, US People Surname * Augustus Walford Weedon (1838–1908), English painter * Basil Weedon (1923–2003), English chemist * Bert Weedon (1920–2012), English guitarist and composer * David Weedon (born 1942), Australian dermatopathologist * George Weedon (1734–1793), American soldier * George Weedon (gymnast) (1920–2017), English gymnast * Gerrick Weedon (born 1991), Australian rules footballer * Harry Weedon (1887–1970), English architect * Margaret Weedon (1853–1930), English archer Given name * Weedon Grossmith (1854–1919), English writer, playwright, actor and painter * Weedon Osborne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
