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Default Bowker's Horse.

© IWM (INS 7587)

Pair of First World War period shoulder straps issued to British settler-soldiers in East Africa in 1914 who served in Bowker's Horse, a locally raised irregular cavalry unit. This was the only item of uniform that was issued to the soldiers in Bowker's Horse, presumably these examples were worn by a corporal.

"William Russell Bowker (1855-1916 Grahamstown, Albany District, Cape of Good Hope ) was an early pioneer of Kenya. He owned 20,000 acres in the Kedong Valley. He raised 'Bowker's Horse' for service during World War I.
William Russell Bowker was born in the Eastern Cape in 1855, the eleventh of twelve children, the fourth of five sons born to the Hon.Bertram Egerton Bowker".


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Now that is truly special . It has got to be unique.
How did it survive for 100years ?
Thanks for showing.
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