NAM.1957-02-68-1

Shabraque, Royal Horse Guards, Lt Richard Frederick Molyneux, 1898 (c). Scarlet cloth lined with scarlet lightweight wool. Richard Frederick Molyneux (1873-1954) was the youngest son of William Molyneux, 4th Earl of Sefton, and served with the regiment from 1895 to 1905. While attached to the 21st Lancers in the 2nd Sudan War he participated in the famous cavalry charge at Omdurman in 1898 along with Winston Churchill of the 11th Hussars. Molyneux was badly wounded in the arm and was assisted by Pte Thomas Byrne who won the VC for his gallantry. Churchill provided the skin from his own arm for a graft for Molyneux. Molyneux, in civilian clothes, on board a ship, has his arm is in a sling in this picture. Molyneux went on to serve in the Boer War and on the Western Front and retired as a major in 1919. He served in the royal household as groom to King George V and equerry to Queen Mary

Omdurman, Battle of, 1898 (2nd Sudan War 1895-1899)