British cavalry lancers, France Size:XL: 100 x 75cm William Holman Hunt

William Holman Hunt

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

'An innumerable multitude of stars cover the whole ground of the heavens and there are probably many more than there here laid down on the nebula

2nd May 1949

British cavalry lancers, France Size:XL: 100 x 75cm William Holman HuntBritish 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.