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Releasing a carrier pigeonVintage Photographs - Animals
Updated - Saturday, 27 May, 2006

This section of the website contains archive photographs taken during, before and after the war.  Specifically this sub-section contains photos of animals either on or in relation to the battlefront.

Click here to read introductory notes relating to this section, including information on photograph sources.  Use the sidebar to the right to select other categories of photos available within this section.

The photos reproduced below are in thumbnail format - simply click a given photograph to view a larger copy within a separate window.

Releasing a carrier pigeon (CNP) American mule team in France (CNP)
Belgian machine guns drawn by dogs (WW) British naval pilot releasing a carrier pigeon (WW)
British driver and horse wearing gas masks (WW) Dogs in the trenches (WW)
Members of U.S. field artillery grooming their horses (WW) A British cavalryman waits under shell fire to advance (WW)
Dogs used instead of horses by Belgian refugees (NW) Dogs used to pull batteries of Belgian Lewis Guns (NW)
French transports and cavalry horses after arrival at Salonika (NW) Cattle being driven to the Russian army while in Galicia (NW)
Romanian cavalry (NW) Oxen on muddy Serbian roads (NW)
British cavalry (MF) American officers attaching a message to a carrier pigeon (HW)
The French Army's carrier-pigeon service on the Western Front (GW) German South-West Africa Camel Corps on the March (GW)
The Canadians' Pet: a snapshot taken at camp in Salisbury (GW) Australian forces and their pets in Egypt (GW)
Female horse-breaker working for the Army Remount Department (GW) British troops driving in a flock of sheep in the Dardanelles (GW)
British farmer sowing while a woman works the team (GW) An Indian mountain battery (GW)
French engineers conducting a cavalry regiment across river in N. France (GWS) Parade of the Imperial Light Horse (GWS)
Italian cavalry on the move (GWS) French engineers conveying war horses across a river in France (GWS)
French engineers conveying war horses across a river in France (GWS) Horses swimming across a stream guided by soldiers on a raft (GWS)
A company of French African cavalry watering their horses at a stream (GWS) Russian horse artillery crossing a stream on the Polish front (GWS)
A British war dog used for trench sentry work in Flanders (GWS) A horse dentist at work in France (GWS)
French cavalry at work in the Champagne district (GWS) Camels from Egypt en route to Gallipoli (GWS)
Train of donkeys laden with water supplies on a Gallipoli beach (GWS)  

An Armlet was a cloth band worn around the arm to identify a particular duty or function.

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