. The horse and the war. Illustrated from drawings by Lionel Edwards and from photographs. With a note by Sir Douglas Haig. re be dependent also on thesaving of our horses lives. They must live to preserve the mobility of thefighting forces. They must fill their big and vital part in withdrawing theguns from their forward positions ; in securing the mobility of the ArmyService Corps which must never lose touch ; in bringing up ammunition togunners and infantry ; in saving those transportable stores and munitionsof war which an oncoming enemv would advertise as booty ; and in ahundred different
. The horse and the war. Illustrated from drawings by Lionel Edwards and from photographs. With a note by Sir Douglas Haig. re be dependent also on thesaving of our horses lives. They must live to preserve the mobility of thefighting forces. They must fill their big and vital part in withdrawing theguns from their forward positions ; in securing the mobility of the ArmyService Corps which must never lose touch ; in bringing up ammunition togunners and infantry ; in saving those transportable stores and munitionsof war which an oncoming enemv would advertise as booty ; and in ahundred different ways. It is just natural to lapse at a moment like this into comparing picturesdeeply engraved for all time on the mind. Imagination has nothing to dowith it, since only those who have seen and participated can , however eloquent, cannot convey reality to those who have not. Onerecalls the short winters day on the Somme with Albert left behind to thewestward, or a point farther north around which the hell of battle has sinceraged. Our forward guns were lost in the poor visibility of the fast-ebbing 96. The pack mule j»ettins^ on with his job.
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