An individual soldier in the cavalry is known by a number of designations such as cavalryman, horseman or trooper.
The soldiers it depicts are: 1 senior officer, 4 infantrymen and 1 cavalryman.
In most cases they served on foot as infantry, though sometimes they could operate on horseback: as a cavalryman or dragoon.
The petronel (cavalryman) was used to give support to more heavily armoured cavalry such as demi-lancers and cuirassiers.
Additionally, they were graded on the number of armed cavalrymen, or "sowars", which each had to maintain for service in the imperial army.
The army consisted of about 9,000 cavalrymen and 3,000 foot soldiers.
Considerable effort was expended in the conversion of cavalrymen into footsoldiers trained and equipped for trench warfare.
It is not only on the battlefield that the cavalryman and others who are keen upon their regiment are anxious to defend the honour of the regiment.
