They may be the 9th Queens Lancers who were at Ypres Messines and Meteren in October 1914. The Bridge may be the Pont de Nieppe at Armentières over the River Lys/Leie.
Not as clumsy or random as a mortar; an elegant weapon for a more civilized age.
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Those horses probably didn’t survive very long. Millions of horses were killed in the war
The British Remount system for replacing horses during the War makes interesting reading. It’s even quite possible that many of the horses above were bred and trained in Ireland.
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They may be the 9th Queens Lancers who were at Ypres Messines and Meteren in October 1914. The Bridge may be the Pont de Nieppe at Armentières over the River Lys/Leie.
Not as clumsy or random as a mortar; an elegant weapon for a more civilized age.
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Those horses probably didn’t survive very long. Millions of horses were killed in the war
The British Remount system for replacing horses during the War makes interesting reading. It’s even quite possible that many of the horses above were bred and trained in Ireland.
https://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/making-horses-war-army-remount-service/
Seeing this I wonder if there were actual cavalry attacks with lances during the Franco-Prussian war. This looks so outdated.
they did everything well organized, drinking in a row, dying in a row