Talk:Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars

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A fact from Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know? column on 2 June 2008.

[edit] References

Most of the references just go to an index page of oxfordshire.gov.uk. Can they be made to link to the correct page? Olaf Davis | Talk 10:31, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

And the first two references are 404s. Olaf Davis | Talk 10:32, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

I've fixed the Oxfordshire CC refs, the Army website seems to be being restructured at the moment, so I've having a bit of trouble findign equivalents for the other two. David Underdown (talk) 10:46, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

ref 1 / 2 fixed for info the Mod website has been restructed to fix any previous link the format is to add a 2 after www = WWW2 , hope thats made clear Jim Sweeney (talk) 13:12, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

Great, thanks both of you. The article has just been approved for DYK. Olaf Davis | Talk 20:59, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

I understand that the first British non-regular units that landed in France and saw action were actually the North Irish Horse and the South Irish Horse. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.157.149.93 (talk) 18:35, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

Problem is North Irish Horse is entirely unreferenced, and South Irish Horse, isn't much better, and on a quick look I couldn't see any references that confirmed this. Arguably there is a distinction in that the Irish units took part as a composite regiment, whereas the QOOH were a complete formed unit. David Underdown (talk) 18:42, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

I believe they were part of what was called the special reserve and not a part of the T.A. Jim Sweeney (talk) 20:11, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

I found this on the net which may explain -

The Haldane reforms of 1908 reorganised the British Army entirely. Yeomanry regiments now became part of the Territorial Force. This legislation did not apply in Ireland. As a result the North and South Irish Imperial Yeomanry were re-designated as Special Reserve cavalry regiments. http://www.southirishhorse.com/documents/history.htm Jim Sweeney (talk) 21:30, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Gazette

Trying to improve the refs a bit more, going through Gazette search results for commisisoning of 9th Duke [1] David Underdown (talk) 16:45, 2 June 2008 (UTC)