If you have visited 'The Oxfordshire Yeoman' at Freeland no doubt you have admired the handsome 1891 Muster Roll that hangs in the bar.
When I first told you about it last month I pointed out that lovers of local military history would find many well-known names listed among the men who made up the six troops of the Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars.
Then I went on to say that I imagined as interesting to the casual observer would be the skill with which the artist presented them on his illuminated scroll.
Well, I was right up to a point. But it seems the Victorian illuminator was no more proof against error than the rest of us scribblers. Among the members of the Woodstock Troop he recorded one Corporal S. Chaundry.
But no such person existed. It was a mistake - no doubt occasioned by some senior officer's indecipherable handwriting - for Corporal George Chaundy of Wootoon Downs Farm, near Woodstock, whose family had been farmers in Oxfordshire since the fourteenth century.
Corporal Chaundy joined the Yeomanry in 1880, providing himself with horse, groom and uniform, and for the next 20 years was a valiant member of the regiment rising to the rank of Regional Quarter Master before he retired in 1900 after an accident with a horse.
So although it must have pained him to find that the artist had got his name wrong he treasured the muster roll and until a few weeks ago it hang in the office of his son. H. H. Chaundy, of Camoys Cottage, Chiselhampton, the last of a long line of Chaundys to farm in Oxfordshire.
Then oddly enough just before my article appeared the cord snapped, with a crash the framed document fell to the ground breaking the glass, and at the moment it is waiting to go to the picture framer's for repairs.
It has obviously been much better looker after than the one at Freeland, which a former employee of Major E Barnett found in an outhouse and probably the main reason is that it is as much a farming relic as a military one.
Mr Chaundy can tell you the history of a great many men who are listed on the muster roll and still numbers several of their children and grand-children among his friends.
In addition to the roll he still has the blue and mantua purple silver brocaded pillbox hat his father bought when he first enlisted, the silver cup he won as a private for rifle practice on 28th April 1884, and a despatch box bearing the legend Sergeant Instructor Chaundy, 1894, which he no doubt acquired when he was promoted in rank.
But perhaps the most interesting relic of his father's military career is the faded telegram handed in at Woodstock on 19th December 1899, and delivered 13 minutes later at Wootton.
On it in pencil is the simple message: "Will you volunteer for Cape? Reply - Goldie." Things weren't going too well for the British against the Boers in the South African War and the despatch of Field Marshal Lord Roberts with a seventh division to replace Buller as supreme commander practically drained Britain of trained men.
So the War Office appealed to the Yeomanry and Volunteer regiments and hence the telegram to George Chaundy. George wasn't able to go. With a 450-acre farm to look after it was too much to ask him to down tools and shoulder arms.
But one person who did go was the seventh Duke of Marlborough and when he returned from South Africa he gave George a Kruger gold sovereign, along no doubt with several other members of the Yeomanry who weren't able to make the trip.
Mr Chaundy has it still, attached to his father's gold watch chain.
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