ANIMALS IN THE GREAT WAR
by Stephen Wynn & Tanya Wynn
This book looks at the use of animals, by all sides, in the Great War and to what effect.
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ANIMALS IN THE GREAT WAR
by Stephen Wynn & Tanya Wynn
This book looks at the use of animals, by all sides, in the Great War and to what effect.
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ANIMALS IN THE GREAT WAR
by Stephen Wynn & Tanya Wynn
This book looks at the use of animals, by all sides, in the Great War and to what effect. In the main, it focuses greatly on horses, dogs and pigeons, but also addresses the war efforts of other animals. In the early years of the war, horses were, to a large extent, the only form of transport that was available to the British Army. Dogs also played a major role in the war, especially in the trenches on the Western Front. They were also used for sentry duties in the trenches as well as catching rats, and they were used as messengers and to sniff out wounded soldiers in No Man’s Land. Besides their immediate handlers who looked after their everyday needs, there was the Royal Army Veterinary Corps to tend to their wounds after they had been injured in the execution of their duties. An excellent book that tells a side to the Great War we rarely hear.