and mine, though if they thought they could get Rose to cooperate pulling a gun.... Molly would have been invalided out with shell shock within a week.
The images of those poor horses drowning in mud haunts me. Horses suffered horrifically in war - even now those bs who strap explosives to donkeys to try to kill the troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. You cannot comprehend people's utter cruelty.
I know they eventually put up a memorial to the animals who went to war but the horses gave so much - the ones that campaigned in Egypt and far east and were then left there and sold on and starved, and were ill treated - that was the start of the Brook Hospital, many of the officers shot their horses rather than leave them to that fate. Even then governments took the cheap option.
Today on Armistice Sunday, it would be nice if one horse paraded in memory of the thousands who had no choice and gave their lives.