From Colonial Warrior to Western Front Flyer: The Five Wars of Sydney Herbert Bywater Harris by Carole McEntee-Taylor

Author:Carole McEntee-Taylor [McEntee-Taylor, Carole]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Tags: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Military
ISBN: 9781473851917
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Published: 2015-02-27T22:00:00+00:00

Elsa’s bedroom in Rutland, 1902.

Elsa’s brother Wendell, now an Episcopalian bishop, and his wife, Susannah, were also in England at this time, leaving on 4 November to return to the USA. On 30 January 1905 Sydney and Elsa sailed to New York on the Minneapolis, returning to Dover on 27 February 1905 on the Finland. Their first child, Sydney Herbert Verder Harris, was born in the summer of 1905. Shortly after his birth his father joined the King’s Colonials Imperial Yeomanry, later to be renamed the King Edward’s Horse.

The King Edward’s Horse (KEH) was formed in 1901, largely at the instigation of George Hamilton (later to become Lieutenant Colonel) who suggested that there was room in the home defences for a unit raised purely from the oversees element who were living in Britain. George Hamilton was a member of the Committee of the Colonial Club in London and envisaged something along similar lines. The Boer War had attracted considerable patriotic feeling throughout the empire and citizens from Australia, Canada, New Zealand and some local Afrikaner forces had joined up to fight with Lord Roberts’ Army.

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