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Ep. 19 – Animals in the Great War – Lucinda Moore
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Lucinda Moore, a picture researcher at the Mary Evans Picture Library, discusses her new book Animals in the Great War with Tom Thorpe. Your browser does not support the audio element. Transcript Dr Tom Thorpe [TT]: In this week's episo…
Finding the Horses for War
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Horses and mules were not a marginal resource for the Army during the First World War - they were to play a crucial role in the Allied victory. Whilst motorised vehicles had started being introduced into the ranks in 1903, the horse still reigned supreme for artillery and cavalry. In 1914 the Army had a completely integrated transport system feat…
Animals in the Great War
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Pages: 117Illustrations: 32ISBN: 9781473838048Published by Pen & Sword: 17th June 2019 There is room for a book on animals in the First World War but this is probably not it - or at least not this edition. With a firmer editorial hand and support on the military history of the First World War much more could have been achieved. Animals in the…
Animal War Heroes (1933) by Peter Shaw Baker
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Though published nearly 90 years ago, Animal War Heroes is as much a delight to read today as I’m sure it was in the 1930s. The format is simple: a series of stories are told each time featuring a different animal. An 85 year old edition is a joy to thumb through - a ‘proper’ hardback, even if it has the smell of something that has sat on a shelf f…
Horses on the Western Front by Elspeth Johnstone
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Horses on the Western Front by Elspeth Johnstone (This article first appeared in Gun Fire pp38-52. All issues are available to Western Front Association members to access via your member login.) (1) You have shod them cold, and their coats are long, and their bellies stiff with mud; They have done with gloss and polish, but the fighting heart…
'Soldiers & Their Horses - Horses & Their Soldiers’ - Dr. Jane Flynn
This talk focuses on the Soldier-Horse Relationship, 1914-1918. The War Office may only have seen a homogenous mass of men and horses, of numbers killed and the cost of their replacement, but to their 'owners' the horses were as much a part of the life of their units as their fellow men. Many soldiers fervently believed it was their horses to whom …
Dr. Jane Flynn - ‘A Weapon in the Hands of the Allies’ The Remount Service and the AVC
Jane will be revisiting the branch to give the talk she had originally intended to give last year looking at how the supply of horses to the British Army was an unprecedented logistical and organisational enterprise, undergone at great expense, solely because military success depended on the versatility and endurance of the military horse. Members…
Ep.303 – The Remount Service and the Army Veterinary Corps during The Great War – Dr Jane Flynn
Dr Jane Flynn talks about the Army Remount Service and the Army Veterinary Corps during the First World War. Your browser does not support the audio element. The outbreak of war in 1914, found the British Army with a total establishment o…