How did cavalrymen in WW1 see themselves?

Cavalrymen, just like any people, only partially saw themselves when they looked down: legs, arms, their chest, etc. They never saw certain body parts, like their backs, their own face, and so on. read more

I think western cavalrymen saw themselves as an elite at the start of the war but as the war drew on they must have increasingly realised that they were becoming obsolete in the trench and machine gun heavy environments of the western front. read more

Not an answer but be sure to discern between plain 'soldiers on horses' (mounted infantry) from 'cavalry' (fighters from the saddle). Many people seem to describe soldiers on horses as a cavalrymen, when a large amount of horse equipped soldiers would in fact dismount before fighting and the horses are just there to get them around speedily. read more