Talk:Royal Gloucestershire Hussars

Help improve our long-awaited Wikiproject!
 Please join our project to upgrade Gloucestershire-related articles to featured status. Mike | talk  16:27, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

William Codrington
In his book Rollo Clifford twice mentions a Captain, later Sir William Codrington, who raised the Marshfield and Dodington troop, which was sent to Bristol in 1831 during the riots there. There is on WP a William John Codrington who, according to the article, was a captain around this time and later knighted. There is, however, nothing in the sources that I currently have to link the two together. Mentioning it here in case someone out there can source a connection. FactotEm (talk) 18:44, 16 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Wyndham-Quin states that the Marshfield and Dodington Troop was raised by William C. Codrington, son of Sir Christopher Bethell Codrington of Dodington Park. That makes him likely to be Christopher William Codrington, but not enough evidence to link the two definitively. FactotEm (talk) 18:40, 17 November 2017 (UTC)

CE
Did a cheeky little drive-by ce, hyphenated isbns, changed author2 to last2 first2, clicked auto ed and EngVarB, checked for dupe wikilinks. Rv as desired. Keith-264 (talk) 09:39, 7 January 2018 (UTC)
 * All good. Thanks. Factotem (talk) 10:38, 7 January 2018 (UTC)

Note on composition of the RGH
For the record, in response to a question raised at the ACR, I added this paragraph detailing the changing composition of the Imperial Yeomanry. On further reading, although the 'Yeomanry Cavalry' that existed throughout the 19th century was renamed to Imperial Yeomanry in 1901, at the time of the Second Boer War the Imperial Yeomanry was an entirely separate entity, so the details of its social composition are not relevant. I have therefore removed the above mentioned paragraph. Although the social composition of the yeomanry, and the changes therein, are a theme in the yeomanry story, the sources for the Royal Gloucestershire Hussars do not reveal any further info than is already covered by the story of the two brothers' dispute, the ties to the farming community and the links to fox hunting that are detailed in the "formation and early history" section. Factotem (talk) 17:45, 19 January 2018 (UTC)

Recent edits
This edit introduced "Army List" as a source, but there is no corresponding entry for this in the bibliography, no link to any official website, and generally no information that would help a reader verify the information for themselves. Can this be added please? Otherwise it will be necessary to remove the source and the information cited to it. Factotem (talk) 17:48, 8 November 2019 (UTC)

Additionally, if this article was up for FAC again now, the reliability of two of the other new sources added in that edit would be queried and, if not satisfactorily answered, would jeopardise the article's chances of success, so I'll ask that question now: what makes https://www.angloboerwar.com/ and http://www.roll-of-honour.com/ reliable sources? Factotem (talk) 17:48, 8 November 2019 (UTC)
 * I've asked for opinions on the reliability of these two sources at WP:RSN and advertised the query on the MILHIST project TP Factotem (talk) 18:53, 11 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Three opinions have been given at RSN, and all three are that those two sources do not qualify as WP:RS, which support my own opinion. As there is also no further information on the "Army List", I have reverted the edits. Happy to discuss. Factotem (talk) 08:58, 12 November 2019 (UTC)