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Title: The horse and the war. Illustrated from drawings by Lionel Edwards and from photographs. With a note by Sir Douglas Haig
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Galtrey, Sidney
Subjects: Great Britain. Army Horses
Publisher: London Country life
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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the frontto the base. It should be understood that with every formation in the fieldthere is an Administrative Veterinary Officer, and Executive Veterinary Officersare with the different units of the formation. On falling sick or wounded— ineffective, as they would say in military language—an animal is sentto a Mobile Veterinary Section, which is a very small veterinary unit, oneof which is attached to each cavalry brigade and each infantry division.These sections were introduced as the result of experience gained in SouthAfrica, and, having seen them at work, I can vouch for their efficiency andthe important part they are playing in beginning the movement of the sickfrom the front. It is their function to give first aid, and simple cases theyretain and issue into work again. Their real work, however, is to dispatch,as often and as quickly as possible, the hospital cases to one of the largereception depots. There may be several such depots, and two which I saw yielded lasting 104
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io6 THE HORSE AND THE WAR impressions of what can be done by an administration which seems to havemastered every detail in regard to the welfare of the horses and the care of thosemen who constitute the rank and file of the Veterinary Service. The first ofthem is in a town of fairly considerable size, and it certainly owes much to thefact that it is chiefly housed in what before the war was a French artillerybarracks. Thus there is comfort at once for the sick and wounded that comedown from the front by road, rail or barge, and especially is this so in the oldriding school, which is now the temporary home of many cases. The ideaof the sick arriving in barges is certainly unique. Five, each to hold thirty-five,are employed on the canal in this way, and the journey makes for peace andrest en route. The other reception hospital I have in mind is probably the lastword on such institutions. In all manner of ways—in the utihzation of cleveryet simple devices, in the observance of absolute

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