Talk:Household Cavalry/Archive 1

etymology
inquiry: the entymology of "sergeant" given on this page appears incorrect; I believe (but cannot confirm) that "sergeant" derives from the equivalent Persian rank of "serjan," and has no relation to any word for "servant."

The OED (2nd ed. 1989) has:

"OF. sergent, serjant (mod.F. sergent) = Pr. serven-s, Sp. sirviente, Pg., It. servente servant:{em}L. servientem, pr. pple. of serv{imac}re SERVE v.1 The Fr. word has been adopted into other Rom. langs.: It. sergente, Sp., Pg. sargento sergeant, Sp. sergente, Pg. sargente catchpoll."

This seems to confirm the Latin derivation. The first definition given by the OED is also "A serving-man, attendant, servant. Obs." which also makes a similar point. Orangeaurochs 11:11, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Corporal of Horse Craig Harrison sniper shot
I really dont want to engage in an undo war - I will be happy to discuss the inclusion here with multiple contributors as well as noclador.

In my opinion a world record sniper kill is not "just a single sniper shot" - it was noteworthy enough to be included in almost every major media outlet worldwide because of its noteworthiness and importance. I think this is a very important contribution and should be inlcuded just as the canadian and US records were included in other sections at the time they held the records.

I would also argue that this unit member is far more notable than someone like James Hewitt who apparently is on there because he was sleeping with the Princess? That might be something of world discussion but certainly not honorable or worthy of mention on this fine units page. Lets not take away from someones noteworthy and excellent achievement -especially at the rank of corporal! 1kn0wtruth (talk) 21:26, 12 May 2010 (UTC)

Copyvio

 * http://www.householdcavalry.net/#/the-household-cavalry/4558851280

The matching information has progressively built up on this article, so either this article has progressively copied information from the linked site (making it a more extensive match) or the linked site has copied from Wikipedia without attribution and then explicitly claimed it as their own copyright. I suspect that it may be the latter, particularly since the website uses low quality copies of two images used in the article for which Wikipedia has high quality images. AusTerrapin (talk) 20:36, 19 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Yeah, after some investigation I'm almost certain they copied from us and not the other way around. Regards, Theleftorium (talk) 11:29, 18 August 2012 (UTC)

personal bodyguards??
The page reads that the Household Cavalry are the Queen's personal bodyguards. That is not true. They do not have a day-to-day role in providing close protection to the Queen; that would be the Queen's Police Officer. The Cavalry would be appropriately described as her ceremonial guards. 74.69.9.224 (talk) 01:12, 28 January 2014 (UTC)

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Years
As far as I'm aware and what I've seen, the Household Cavalry has been around since the 1660s. HOWEVER, only the armoured regiment (known simply as the Household Cavalry Regiment) was formed in 1992. The Household Cavalry (as a corps in its own right) has been around a lot longer. So my question is why does the infobox state 1992 and not simply keep 1660? My refs: Household Cavalry Regiment at regiments.org Household Cavalry at the army website. I also have some books in references if you would like.. J-Man11 (talk) 00:28, 25 July 2021 (UTC)