Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
0 ratings
Ebook176 pages2 hours
Animals in the Great War
By Stephen Wynn and Tanya Wynn
Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
2/5
()
About this ebook
“Cats, rabbits and even the bear that inspired Winnie the Pooh appear in remarkable photos of the 16 million animals caught up in World War One.” —DailyMail.com
Animals in the Great War looks at the use of animals by all sides in the Great War and to what effect. In the main, it focuses greatly on horses, dogs and pigeons but also addresses the war efforts of other animals.
In the early years of the war horses were, to a large extent, the only form of transport that was available to the British Army, ranging from use by cavalry units, artillery units as well others such as the Army Ordnance Corps for the conveying of ammunition supplies to men fighting at the front. Britain sent an estimated one million horses to fight in the war, most of them to France and Belgium, but only 60,000 of them ever returned home, and only then were they returned because of the intervention of Winston Churchill.
Dogs also played a major role in the war, especially in the trenches on the Western Front. They were used as mascots by the different regiments and in some cases, they were companions for homesick soldiers. They were also used for sentry duties in the trenches as well as catching rats, and they were used as messengers and to sniff out wounded soldiers in No Man’s Land.
Animals in the Great War explores how everyday domestic animals were transformed into remarkable wartime heroes, who more than did their bit for the war effort.
Animals in the Great War looks at the use of animals by all sides in the Great War and to what effect. In the main, it focuses greatly on horses, dogs and pigeons but also addresses the war efforts of other animals.
In the early years of the war horses were, to a large extent, the only form of transport that was available to the British Army, ranging from use by cavalry units, artillery units as well others such as the Army Ordnance Corps for the conveying of ammunition supplies to men fighting at the front. Britain sent an estimated one million horses to fight in the war, most of them to France and Belgium, but only 60,000 of them ever returned home, and only then were they returned because of the intervention of Winston Churchill.
Dogs also played a major role in the war, especially in the trenches on the Western Front. They were used as mascots by the different regiments and in some cases, they were companions for homesick soldiers. They were also used for sentry duties in the trenches as well as catching rats, and they were used as messengers and to sniff out wounded soldiers in No Man’s Land.
Animals in the Great War explores how everyday domestic animals were transformed into remarkable wartime heroes, who more than did their bit for the war effort.
Author
Stephen Wynn
Stephen is a retired police officer having served with Essex Police as a constable for thirty years between 1983 and 2013. He is married to Tanya and has two sons, Luke and Ross, and a daughter, Aimee. His sons served five tours of Afghanistan between 2008 and 2013 and both were injured. This led to the publication of his first book, Two Sons in a Warzone – Afghanistan: The True Story of a Father’s Conflict, published in October 2010. Both Stephen’s grandfathers served in and survived the First World War, one with the Royal Irish Rifles, the other in the Mercantile Marine, whilst his father was a member of the Royal Army Ordnance Corps during the Second World War.When not writing Stephen can be found walking his three German Shepherd dogs with his wife Tanya, at some unearthly time of the morning, when most normal people are still fast asleep.
Read more from Stephen Wynn
The Blackout Ripper: A Serial Killer in London, 1942 St Nazaire Raid, 1942 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDisaster Before D-Day: Unravelling the Tragedy at Slapton Sands Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Shetland 'Bus': Transporting Secret Agents Across the North Sea in WW2 Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Holocaust: The Nazis' Wartime Jewish Atrocities Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Women in the Great War Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Etaples: Britain's Notorious Infantry Base Depot, 1914–1919 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAgainst All Odds: Walter Tull the Black Lieutenant Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsChurchill's Flawed Decisions: Errors in Office of The Greatest Briton Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Surrender of Singapore: Three Years of Hell 1942–45 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCity of London at War 1939–45 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsJoachim Peiper and the Nazi Atrocities of 1944 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Rise & Fall of Imperial Japan Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsStalag XXA Torun Enforced March from Poland Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMystery of Missing Flight F-BELV Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPoole in the Great War Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGravesend in the Great War Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHitler's Air Defences Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAir Transport Auxiliary at War: 80th Anniversary of its Formation Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCountering Hitler's Spies: British Military Intelligence, 1940–1945 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCity of London in the Great War Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTarget Rommel: The Allied Attempts to Assassinate Hitler’s General Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFighter Aces of the Great War Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBarking and Dagenham in the Great War Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsScarborough in the Great War Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Channel Islands in the Great War Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsChatham in the Great War Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDuelling Through the Ages Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDover in the Great War Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Related to Animals in the Great War
Related ebooks
Animals in the Great War Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5The Diggers' Menagerie: Mates, Mascots and Marvels - True Stories of Animals Who Went to War Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5War, Police and Watch Dogs Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRoman Conquests: North Africa Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Lost Story of the Ocean Monarch: Fire, Family, & Fidelity Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The British and Cyprus: An Outpost of Empire to Sovereign Bases, 1878-1974 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSeafurrers: The Ships' Cats Who Lapped and Mapped the World Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5In Praise of Hawking - A Selection of Scarce Articles on Falconry First Published in the Late 1800s Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPyrrhus of Epirus Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Into the Blue Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5British Game Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Journal of the Waterloo Campaign: All Volumes Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Long War for Britannia 367–664: Arthur and the History of Post-Roman Britain Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Cavalry: A Global History Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Art and Practice of Hawking Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCanine Commandos: The Heroism, Devotion, and Sacrifice of Dogs in War Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Unicorn, a Mythological Investigation Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsIrishmen in the Great War: Reports from the Front 1914 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Sport of Pigeon Racing Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBeyond No Man's Land Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsQuiet Warriors: Veteran's Military Service Memories Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRetreat and Rearguard, 1914: The BEF's Actions From Mons to the Marne Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Nelson's Mediterranean Command Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWhen Elephants Clash - A Critical Analysis Of Major General Paul Emil Von Lettow-Vorbeck Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5In Pursuit of the Essex: Heroism & Hubris on the High Seas in the War of 1812 Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Life So Full of Promise: further biographies of Australia’s lost generation Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSecrets of the Spitfire: The Story of Beverley Shenstone, the Man Who Perfected the Elliptical Wing Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Migration of Birds Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGloucester in the Great War Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Wars & Military For You
Mein Kampf: The Original, Accurate, and Complete English Translation Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsChurchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: The Mavericks Who Plotted Hitler's Defeat Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Sun Tzu's The Art of War: Bilingual Edition Complete Chinese and English Text Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Art of War Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The God Delusion Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Daily Creativity Journal Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5God Is Not One: The Eight Rival Religions That Run the World--and Why Their Differences Matter Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Wager Disaster: Mayem, Mutiny and Murder in the South Seas Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Unit 731: Testimony Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Unacknowledged: An Expose of the World's Greatest Secret Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Doctors From Hell: The Horrific Account of Nazi Experiments on Humans Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Forgotten Highlander: An Incredible WWII Story of Survival in the Pacific Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Art of War & Other Classics of Eastern Philosophy Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Last Kingdom Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Art of War: The Definitive Interpretation of Sun Tzu's Classic Book of Strategy Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Killing the SS: The Hunt for the Worst War Criminals in History Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Rise of the Fourth Reich: The Secret Societies That Threaten to Take Over America Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Making of the Atomic Bomb Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5"The Good War": An Oral History of World War II Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5When I Come Home Again: 'A page-turning literary gem' THE TIMES, BEST BOOKS OF 2020 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Related podcast episodes
Robinson Crusoe / Alexander Selkirk: The Men Who Were Marooned 100% found this document usefulScary Pigs and Phantom Planes: Audio Warfare Through the Ages 0% found this document usefulDoomed Expeditions: An Arctic Vanishing 0% found this document usefulMyths, ships and history: Anna McKay, Lloyd Belton and Oliver Finnegan delve in the deep for seafaring histories 0% found this document usefulEmpire Flying Boats at War Part 3 with Phil Vabre 0% found this document useful30YearsWar #66: A Tale of Two Crowns [1639-40]: A Tale of Two Crowns 0% found this document usefulChina's Greatest Admiral: The Story of Zheng He 0% found this document usefulCase File 167-The Knights Templar 0% found this document usefulWilliam Dampier and HMS Roebuck 0% found this document useful307-The Cyprus Mutiny: In 1829 a group of convicts stole a ship in Tasmania and made their way into the Pacific. 0% found this document usefulMaritime Disasters: HMS Gloucester 0% found this document usefulThe Knights Templar: Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the rise and abrupt fall of the famous military order. 0% found this document useful
Related articles
Q&A YOU ASK, WE ANSWER History RevealedArticle
Q&A YOU ASK, WE ANSWER
Mar 19, 2020
8 min readQ&A YOU ASK, WE ANSWER History RevealedArticle
Q&A YOU ASK, WE ANSWER
Sep 30, 2021
8 min readSpeared Stork Solved The Mystery Of Migratory Birds Science IllustratedArticle
Speared Stork Solved The Mystery Of Migratory Birds
Feb 15, 2023
6 min readFeather Beds, Cockfights And Midnight Flights To The Moon BBC History MagazineArticle
Feather Beds, Cockfights And Midnight Flights To The Moon
Apr 14, 2022
4 min readThree Cheers For Our Noisiest Bird Cage & Aviary BirdsArticle
Three Cheers For Our Noisiest Bird
Feb 28, 2024
5 min readAnimals History RevealedArticle
Animals
Dec 21, 2023
5 min readPigeon Post ASIAN GeographicArticle
Pigeon Post
Apr 5, 2019
3 min readQ&A YOU ASK, WE ANSWER History RevealedArticle
Q&A YOU ASK, WE ANSWER
Nov 24, 2022
6 min readWar Pigeons SA Hunter/JagterArticle
War Pigeons
Mar 11, 2024
My radar picked up the first squadron of rockies coming in over the hills from the north. A loosely-spaced bundle of specs rapidly approaching the field of ripening sunflowers. I felt a rise of excitement as I waited for the first birds to drop into
6 min readQ&A YOU ASK, WE ANSWER History RevealedArticle
Q&A YOU ASK, WE ANSWER
Sep 3, 2020
9 min readMedieval Life History RevealedArticle
Medieval Life
Dec 21, 2023
5 min readQ&A YOU ASK, WE ANSWER History RevealedArticle
Q&A YOU ASK, WE ANSWER
Jun 10, 2021
8 min readThe Death and Life of the Frontier: A Voyage to the Limits of the Knowable.: A voyage to the limits of the knowable. NautilusArticle
The Death and Life of the Frontier: A Voyage to the Limits of the Knowable.: A voyage to the limits of the knowable.
Aug 29, 2013
Where does the world begin and where does it end? In many creation stories the Earth has well-defined edges. In early Mesopotamian mythology it is a flat disk floating in the ocean and surrounded by a circular sky. The Hopi people of northeastern Ari
20 min readPeter Hart On The Development Of World War I Trench Warfare History RevealedArticle
Peter Hart On The Development Of World War I Trench Warfare
Jun 8, 2023
MEET THE EXPERT PETER HART is the former oral historian at the Imperial War Museum, London, and the author of numerous books, including Laugh or Cry: The British Soldier on the Western Front, 1914–1918 (Pen & Sword Military, 2022), written with Gary
2 min readUnmasking Mythical Monsters How It WorksArticle
Unmasking Mythical Monsters
May 13, 2021
6 min readMarginalia Medieval Warfare MagazineArticle
Marginalia
May 19, 2021
This issue examines the topic of ‘Holy Wars’, beginning with a piece from the highly-regarded historian Alfred J. Andrea. In recent years he has been working on religion and warfare from a world history perspective, and his piece here is reflective o
4 min readNot As British As They Seem Shooting Times & CountryArticle
Not As British As They Seem
Jan 25, 2023
5 min readA Short History Of Long-distance Warfare BBC World Histories MagazineArticle
A Short History Of Long-distance Warfare
Jul 16, 2020
Humans are pretty good at killing. From sharp rocks and blunt clubs to long-distance bombers and remote-controlled robots, the quest to kill in new and ‘improved’ ways has long captivated humanity’s creative capacity. Yet at the heart of these develo
11 min readQ&A YOU ASK, WE ANSWER History RevealedArticle
Q&A YOU ASK, WE ANSWER
May 14, 2020
8 min readAre You Stark Raven Mad? Country LifeArticle
Are You Stark Raven Mad?
Jan 18, 2023
6 min readQ&A YOU ASK, WE ANSWER History RevealedArticle
Q&A YOU ASK, WE ANSWER
Mar 18, 2021
9 min readTV, FILM & RADIO History RevealedArticle
TV, FILM & RADIO
Aug 6, 2020
5 min readFive Fowlers Who Changed The Game Shooting Times & CountryArticle
Five Fowlers Who Changed The Game
Mar 8, 2023
5 min readFighting Tooth And Claw Ancient History MagazineArticle
Fighting Tooth And Claw
Mar 15, 2024
'Bread and circuses’ are famously cited as the things needed to keep the people of the Roman empire happy – significant effort was put in to ensuring that they had a ready supply of both. Many shows were held in amphitheatres, over two hundred of whi
7 min readQ&A YOU ASK, WE ANSWER History RevealedArticle
Q&A YOU ASK, WE ANSWER
Sep 1, 2022
9 min readQ&A YOU ASK, WE ANSWER History RevealedArticle
Q&A YOU ASK, WE ANSWER
Jan 20, 2022
8 min readQ&A YOU ASK, WE ANSWER History RevealedArticle
Q&A YOU ASK, WE ANSWER
May 13, 2021
8 min readThe Explainer The Science Of Monsters BBC Science Focus MagazineArticle
The Explainer The Science Of Monsters
Oct 12, 2023
6 min readLet Slip The Dogs Of War Medieval Warfare MagazineArticle
Let Slip The Dogs Of War
Oct 29, 2021
4 min readQ&A YOU ASK, WE ANSWER History RevealedArticle
Q&A YOU ASK, WE ANSWER
Oct 27, 2022
6 min read
Related categories
Reviews for Animals in the Great War
Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
2/5
2 ratings0 reviews
Book preview
Animals in the Great War - Stephen Wynn
H:e book_preview_excerpt.html }Zі۶|xc;M[ $}HHD$X<3 m_Dw 40 _të#nfa4/'/._gW l [st1#?! K? sq6'毝3.Ɲ|.;? ͒,
6:ڙDݙ7h?}T,{?^~u}ͳ|${VCLy4Mgs1,GgGa57iasggyI ۶w3ϡ'pDo^#,씝3ea,6& ΏLcG 6
> g/6Kx'Մ0sσ={9,>Xq
6c& {Xwv9yveMll͟se_w[vcݍax4yE|m٣ y7v 翓qoLCJ̞Ktsඟ͝sNonܙ|nB*t?"텧?ci1 vL]"' x2 O,SC 9 l|payf 6\oVn: (78Oj'=B@ HַW 4F?
Or菶usfp4Go^9aw/ z qXQt6UY wMs;ޝ 0~'8,2[&F ېtGG L87,(5d ZΘ"!ۻK%~k/Czh-l_<1wʱonIm5gB t7L|5y })? +p~t> +%s )gZ5m~L/2.Mr =5<n?/oݕ`8,?!@gsMQ ְ/ǧ{;YO.
G5q'1, .P 跌G.u ^}BUBR_ȑ8-8'KVM1rKWyQ.,jy4reA^xH욻RJ} EɅ?_ "W &0,Rai||a>QQ4E *놩?VgTNK+NK#cM=RI`SH+i& gbC6q Ӆ cXO{#HE [QbUX39* XݯsDFh{
wF0UV9,d]7 U;DybpKMR(''zPaMn} Ό/%JOlЀ6^
qDQukۃ7KB 0X ԉW|HHnl
#궦usy'~@}]8-ӄ+E*'%7\ ASt ه(} tt6<\ ObÜ Y,% t&p!D6;] s&
xgz<'X(dir+ϠdJzeLKm}!ErM>eu
.4] % MQ%^KE,E"3yngD=";G2nPK84vգ$T `LvZPC z&K|s'V|A)Y>JS_o4垍0Fd/sx;e f5 FXJ
RT5e/hapbΘqJpnzNj榛5_6`0]AU~nTZ99)P.ez#a#&R
{w Uɴ
OX7! MZsX cO N(BEBl+ ]$YU WR_7"np7 ؘ76 9yɏ Ac@t},1El\O&ةr ~$ ]b">l](P^jv@_k>s3q@ kt 5!A`'m-E Ћ/uڑ9,OP.GzuWѬ'i hwfͥ Fd[fϩ1\{{ȡ3.fzZ-R""=I"$DȮHL8+50b"̫MSɄ:J́9p f@IOSDsZa |Hy 89\Tg[sR'2\9ߠ8%+p+ZPɈe:5o e( O?
^Ņ%!+s]x |J h%4^M+ظ0 Ñ d|U|nA. m 13H" oݓ?BD5@c3 7}zl&ޮ_O
tLD:*)'/ x (qNǎV-=j,2kׁpNuo!?
o|ݠCJ#qB0fLKWd,!XQ=,[lOJ+dfV6 pVD?nϢA0 5QKck/؞@Ώ NY>k6MUm:g]L
@5Wwҟ%a/*
Uyd1[}LjPnϏlm39? yϷw>mw\⌧f9B*fsmx\l4ŭε^~p3R 9SNɵpl˹7杕 ;.O N?K6՝? zѩ r(N]{PZC㐄ן-^bw=.%a| z4H;pMKͼ7:FR:CAC!5}SˆK;TJP)>2PRO`*JO K[E1` a S S"tא1*Qx?JC:~^]K@K\ʚ9z_#Wyili)^:Tz%M(2 RKs).W GꡔЙ׀JY}Dnz{v'{!@bH vvp] x/~ 2 {AgY:Ip*t!]"ҭOvra:PֻLjw5< bE"j\: >iv p|@/dcSV.ҚGofB.t~57wrɕ\F尶AzRn;|^< Ӈ8$qKh7 $Q2gͬ
US]QNp:,/=?1oT"Ia){%8BB( VC6 {6P ı{8Oy?OnE"GaZ
Enjoying the preview?
Page 1 of 1