Template:Did you know nominations/Royal Artillery Mounted Rifles

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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 19:01, 10 February 2019 (UTC)

Royal Artillery Mounted Rifles[edit]

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... that British artillerymen were used as mounted infantry during the Second Boer War? "It became increasingly clear that guns ... were becoming an anachronism in the era of guerrilla warfare ... the British columns soon abandoned their field and later their horse artillery guns ... Kitchener decreed that the growing numbers of superfluous artillerymen ... should be converted into the Artillery Mounted Rifles" (A History of the British Cavalry: Volume 4: 1899-1913 page 221)
- ALT1:... that Rudyard Kipling may have coined the term "infantillery" to refer to the Royal Artillery Mounted Rifles? "This stanza hints at what the Gunner would consider ‘being messed about’ ... This is followed by the conversion of artillery units into Mounted Infantry, a staff expedient when pitched battles were no longer foreseen, since a high proportion of the artillery were already mounted troops. They became the Royal Artillery Mounted Rifles, or, as Kipling put it, the 'R.A.M.R. Infantillery Corps'. See Background note to “M.I.”. ‘Infantillery’ a compound of 'artillery' and 'infantry', possibly Kipling’s coinage, subsequently taken up by others." (Kipling Society)

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Moved to mainspace by Dumelow (talk). Self-nominated at 09:40, 5 January 2019 (UTC).

New, in time, long enough, sourced, inline hook citations check out, no apparent copyvios. Dumelow, just awaiting the QPQ. --Usernameunique (talk) 07:42, 6 January 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for the review Usernameunique. I have just carried out a QPQ at Template:Did you know nominations/CS Alert (1890) - Dumelow (talk) 10:12, 6 January 2019 (UTC)

All set now. —Usernameunique (talk) 16:30, 6 January 2019 (UTC)