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Title: The horse and the war
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Galtrey, Sidney, 1878-1935
Subjects: Horses
Publisher: London : "Country life"
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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theAustro-German hosts on the plains of Northern Italy. Now let us return again to the North. A base remount depot, which wewill call A, has, of course, easy access from the sea. From the spot whereit is situated you look towards an historical city, through which a river famousin commerce, romance and tragedy, passes out on its ever-widening passageto the sea. You contemplate that vista of ancient monuments minglingwith the tall chimneys of modern industry, and your imagination flits cen-turies back to the distant ages when the Norsemen came, when English andFrench fought as fierce opponents, asking and giving no quarter, and whentreachery, bloodshed, and swaying battles were part of the unhappy lives ofeach succeeding generation. Odd contrasts indeed ! This depot may besaid to have had its origin half in York and half in Waterford, the dividedforces becoming united at their first French base on August 19, 1914. Theywere there only a fortnight, and then at a time when the Germans were
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Watering at a base Remount Depot in France. 68 THE HORSE AND THE WAR seriouslv threatening the northern coast of France they were hurriedly shippedand put out to sea. For three da3^s they were steaming for a destinationunknown to the voyagers until they again landed in France. For threeweeks afterwards they were strenuously engaged in supplying horses to thefront, including most of the thousand brought from Waterford. Then therecame the order to move. Another fortnight passed and eventually the depotcame to rest at the place it has ever since occupied. They were the first tosettle in what was then a fine stretch of parkland on the edge of a forest.You can imagine that with the huge growth of the armies and their require-ments Httle or nothing that is green is to be seen on the surface of that parkto-day, for hospitals, stores, rest camps, and odds and ends of necessarymilitary development abound and congest. The depot began, as all other remount depots began—on nothing ! Allthey pos

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