Colonel Geoffrey Hardinge Phipps-Hornby, CBE, was a British Army officer and international polo player.
Lt. Geoffrey Phipps-Hornby (centre), 9th (Queen's Royal) Lancers, taken early in the Great War with (left) a lieutenant of the 4th (Royal Irish) Dragoon Guards and (right) an officer of the Army Veterinary Corps.
Geoffrey Phipps-Hornby (left) winning the Jorrocks Cup at the Rifle Brigade Point-to-Point Races held at Chawton, near Alton, Hampshire, in 1909.
Lt. Phipps-Hornby (right) with Frederic Coleman (left), Ypres, May 1915.
Stained glass window in the Church of St Michael and All Angels, Somerton
The 2nd Cavalry Brigade was a brigade of the British Army. It served in the Napoleonic Wars, the Boer War and in the First World War when it was assigned to the 1st Cavalry Division.
Geoffrey Hardinge Phipps-Hornby
…the outbreak of the Great War, he was seconded for service on the Staff and served as ADC to Brigadier-General (later General) de Lisle, Commander of 2nd Cavalry Brigade during the Great Retreat. He was promoted to captain in May 1915 and was slightly wounded by a shell splinter while on the staff of Brig.-Gen. Mullens…
c. 1816 painting of the brigade at Waterloo by Denis Dighton
1881 artist’s impression of the charge of the Royal Scots Greys at Waterloo in 1815.
A patrol of the 18th Hussars attempting to obtain information from the local population, 21 August 1914.