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Second Lt Barr was one of three 'unknown' British soldiers of WW1 to finally be named at a poignant ... On September 2, 1915, The Scottish Horse landed at Suvla Bay at Gallipoli.
A six-week journey on horseback through more than 30 rural towns has brought the story of the Australian Light Horse to life ...
Not content with ridiculing the Kaiser in the pages of the Daily Express, Sidney Strube joined up, serving with distinction ...
Teachers for Palestine want schoolchildren taught about Australian soldiers acting as “enforcers of Empire” in post-WWI Egypt ...
Allegedly 650 Soldiers Formed a Tribute to 8 Million Fallen Horses During WW1 (1916). Image courtesy of Almeron Newman/Library of Congress While the image remains a powerful representation of the bond ...
Instead, the 1st Armoured Car Section was renamed the 1st Light Car Patrol, and the ANZACs got their hands on the first ...
It was a picture of harmony between man, beast, and land. Today, the sight of horses drawing a plough is a cherished, almost iconic, image of the British countryside – often reserved for ...
Drawing of Hagerman horse ... and the nature of war itself. Horses in a filed. Image by Annika Treial via Unsplash One of the most iconic roles for horses in warfare was as part of cavalry units.
Noticing a horse in the back of a ranch Fort Bragg, Soldier Recovery Unit (SRU), Soldier reached out, the bond was immediate.
On this day in 2014, two research groups were tracing their villages’ involvement in the First World War. Teams from the "Back to the Front Project," based in Abbots Langley and Kings Langley, were ...
A friend of Prangenberg's, Stefan Johann, had a bracelet in his family for many years. Johann said his grandfather had taken it from a dead soldier during the Battle of Pfaffenheck in World War II.
The discovery of a Roman horses’ graveyard shows a soldier’s grief at the loss of his equine partner, 1,800 years later. An excavation carried out by the state office for monument preservation ...