Collar Disc and Button from Essex Troop 102nd Cavalry Reg.

[kanemono]

Here is a collar disc and a button from the 102nd Cavalry Regiment (New Jersey National Guard) which was constituted in March 1921 as part of the 21st Cavalry Division. The origin of the unit was with the Essex Troop of Light Cavalry, organized in 1890.

Dick

 

 

[KurtA]

Very nice items. Here's another Essex Troop item - Sharpshooter Medal.

 

[abqpropguy]

I had started another thread over in photos hoping to get some info on the insignia worn by this cavalry soldier. The info given was dead on. derrbrad provided the link to this thread.......here is that photo.

 

 

 

 

 

[Salvage Sailor]

Very nice items, missed these the first time around.

 

In the 1980's I worked with an architect who was in the Essex Troop and later the 102nd in WWII. After the annual horse show in 1939 at the Essex Troop armory in Newark, his troop was the first to ride over the George Washington Bridge to Manhattan.

[Story]

For those interested - 

https://njmilitiamuseum.org/military-heritage/essex-troop

 

https://hglanham.tripod.com/uscavalry/uscavalry3.html

[Salvage Sailor]

Interesting that the 'Twilight of the Horse Cavalry' link does not list the service of the Cavalry Regiments in the Hawaiian Department other than the short lived 17th Cavalry which briefly served on Oahu.  A note for the 'Wiki Researchers', always cross check the public pages and hit the resources (i.e. books and journals) The 4th & 5th Cavalry served in Hawaii for years. 

 

Cavalry Sergeant, Troop K 5th Cavalry 1911 - Then engaged in building the new posts in the Territory of Hawaii

Portrait taken at Williams & Nettles studio, Schofield Barracks, T.H.

 

4th US Cavalry Color Guard, Schofield Barracks, T.H. 1914