Transport drivers in the #FirstWorldWar often put their horses needs and safety before their own, forming strong bonds between man and beast. Here a driver weeps for his three animals killed in a shell blast, somewhere on the Western Front. #WarHorseWednesday 📷 Animal Heroes of the Great War, 1925
Are you sure that man isn't lighting a cigarette from his mate's one?
A number of my family particularly from Lincolnshire when joining up to fight in WW1 were described as horseman on the official signed form.
My grandfather was a Royal Artillery officer in WW1. At the end of the war he bought his horse, Joey, from the army and took it back to England. I have a picture of Joey somewhere: my dad remembered him so he must have lived a long time.