‘Animals in war’ image gallery – sources

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1. Horses on deck of troopship Rangatira (A22) in the first contingent of troops to leave Australia after the outbreak of war, 1914¹

2. An Australian Light Horseman tending horses, Mena Camp, Egypt, c. 1915²

3. A soldier on a horse pulls a soldier in a carriage on a light railway, Gallipoli Peninsula, Turkey, 1915³

4. Australian Army Light Horsemen exercising their horses in Mediterranean Sea, Middle East, c. 1915⁴

5. Wounded British war horses awaiting treatment on animal hospital barges, France, c. 1917⁵

6. Loading mules with drinking water for men fighting in the trenches, Gallipoli, Turkey, 1915⁶

7. Corporal Coull with dogs of No. 3 Messenger Dog Section, France, May 1918⁷

8. Australian Light Horse trooper readies to release a carrier pigeon, Palestine, c. 1915⁸

9. Driver Walter Henry Farrell with the unit mascot, a rooster named ‘Jackie’, France, 1917⁹

10. Loading camels with rations for troops manning Suez Canal defences, Egypt, February 1916¹⁰