British cavalry lancers, France Size:XL: 100 x 75cm LONDON' Bottomley held the post

LONDON' Bottomley held the post of Demonstrator of Experimental Physics at the University of Glasgow for 29 years

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Five figures of a land snail shell discovered upon old bricks and stones near Bullstrode in Buckinghamshire

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British cavalry lancers, France Size:XL: 100 x 75cm LONDON' Bottomley held the postBritish cavalry lancers, France, 1914. Dismounted cavalrymen of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) walking alongside their horses and carrying their lances, watched by French civilians. Machine guns, artillery and the nature of the terrain quickly rendered the use of cavalry obsolete on the Western Front, particularly when the conflict became one of trench warfare.