Vintage Photographs - Animals
This section of the website contains archive photographs taken during, before and after the war. Specifically this sub-section contains photos of animals either on or in relation to the battlefront.
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Click here to read introductory notes relating to this section, including information on photograph sources.
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The photos reproduced below are in thumbnail format - simply click a given photograph to view a larger copy within a separate window.
 Releasing
a carrier pigeon (CNP) |
 American mule team in France (CNP) |
 Belgian machine guns drawn by dogs (WW) |
 British naval pilot releasing a carrier pigeon (WW) |
 British driver and horse wearing gas masks (WW) |
 Dogs in the trenches (WW) |
 Members of U.S. field artillery grooming their horses (WW) |
 A British cavalryman waits under shell fire to advance (WW) |
 Dogs used instead of horses by Belgian refugees (NW) |
 Dogs used to pull batteries of Belgian Lewis Guns (NW) |
 French transports and cavalry horses after arrival at Salonika (NW) |
 Cattle being driven to the Russian army while in Galicia (NW) |
 Romanian cavalry (NW) |
 Oxen on muddy Serbian roads (NW) |
 British cavalry (MF) |
 American officers attaching a message to a carrier pigeon (HW) |
 The French Army's carrier-pigeon service on the Western Front (GW) |
 German South-West Africa Camel Corps on the March (GW) |
 The Canadians' Pet: a snapshot taken at camp in Salisbury (GW) |
 Australian forces and their pets in Egypt (GW) |
 Female horse-breaker working for the Army Remount Department (GW) |
 British troops driving in a flock of sheep in the Dardanelles (GW) |
 British farmer sowing while a woman works the team (GW) |
 An Indian mountain battery (GW) |
 French engineers conducting a cavalry regiment across river in N. France (GWS) |
 Parade of the Imperial Light Horse (GWS) |
 Italian cavalry on the move (GWS) |
 French engineers conveying war horses across a river in France (GWS) |
 French engineers conveying war horses across a river in France (GWS) |
 Horses swimming across a stream guided by soldiers on a raft (GWS) |
 A company of French African cavalry watering their horses at a stream (GWS) |
 Russian horse artillery crossing a stream on the Polish front (GWS) |
 A British war dog used for trench sentry work in Flanders (GWS) |
 A horse dentist at work in France (GWS) |
 French avalry at work in the Champagne district (GWS) |
 Camels from Egypt en route to Gallipoli (GWS) |
 Train of donkeys laden with water supplies on a Gallipoli beach (GWS) |
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