GREAT WAR ANIMAL PHOTOS

CAMELS
  • British rations arriving by camel
  • Tranport camel and nursing calf
  • British camel ammunition train
  • Preparing feed cloths for army camels

    Back to Animals Menu

    Back to Main Menu



    CATS
  • Artillery mascot kitten sitting on a shell
  • York and Lancaster regimental cat

    Back to Animals Menu

    Back to Main Menu



    DOGS
  • Tending wounded Red Cross dog
  • Bloodhounds used for locating wounded soldiers
  • Belgian machine gun dogs resting in harness
  • Belgian machine gun dogs on the march
  • Belgian refugees in dog cart
  • Dog wearing a gas mask
  • British messenger dogs with their trainers
  • French dogs and handlers in the trenches
  • Dog wearing message tube
  • Mascot dogs of the 22nd Bristol Fighter Squadron
  • Training war dogs to clear barbed wire
  • French dog kennels

    Back to Animals Menu

    Back to Main Menu



    DONKEYS & MULES
  • Mules team hauling US ammunition wagon, holding up the advance of the whole column. St. Baussant, east of St. Mihiel, France, 13 Sep 1918
  • French donkeys carrying food to the trenches
  • British Army mules in roadmaking operation on the Western front
  • US 132nd Division pack donkey carrying supplies
  • British transport mules in Mesopotamia

    Back to Animals Menu

    Back to Main Menu



    GOATS
  • Welsh Regiment mascot goat
  • Mascot goat wearing helmet

    Back to Animals Menu

    Back to Main Menu



    HORSES
  • Belgian cavalry mounts at rest with their caretaker
  • Horses wearing gas masks
  • Horse-drawn ambulance at Helles
  • British Royal Horse Artillery
  • Royal Horse Artillery train
  • Loading horses onto barges
  • Pack horse being loaded with duckboards
  • Horses drinking from portable canvas trough
  • US transport horses lying dead in harness, Cantigny, 28 May 1918
  • Watering US horses near Cheppy

    Back to Animals Menu

    Back to Main Menu



    OXEN
  • Ox teams used for transport in the Carpathian Mountains
  • French ox team

    Back to Animals Menu

    Back to Main Menu



    PIGEONS
  • Attaching a message to a US Army Signal Corps carrier pigeon
  • American carrier pigeon "Cher Ami" awarded the Distinguished Service Cross
  • Major Raynal's (Ft. Vaux) last pigeon, awarded the Legion of Honor
  • French mobile pigeon loft
  • RAF carrier pigeon with leg tube attached
  • Sending carrier pigeons up to the line
  • Carrier pigeon being released from a seaplane
  • Signal Corps pigeon carrier - for carrier pigeons:-)

    Back to Animals Menu

    Back to Main Menu