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I havent much info on the AEF Vet Corps, but the Australian and British Vet Corps treated approx 2.5m horses in WW1. The Corps were formed after the disgraceful treatment and deaths of so many horses in the Boer War.

restored by the looks

Can you help with identifying this saddle--it has no markings on it.

I would have thought $10 for the horse , $40 for a good saddle ?

Aborigine too Sam, the AWM are compiling a history of aborigines in WW1 service. I am sure that only regts of the 5th ALH went to France ( with the Otago MR from NZ).

From April 1918 the Regt Mixte de Marche de Cavalarie (FR), which composed of Spahis and Chasseurs d'afrique, fought in Palestine under BRGEN MacArthur-Onslow, 5 Australian Lighthorse Brigade.
They replaced the 1/1 Warwick Yeomanry, sent back to France to exploit the last 100 days of the war.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKFRhFQkstw&feature=youtube_gdata_player

The link sends you to a BBC 4 part doco on the horse in WW1.

Points to remember that weren't fully bought home;

Canada and the USA at one point were sending 6000 horses and mules to Europe through USA ports.

The Indian ...

Beersheba, Israel 2009, celebrating the charge of 1917 by Australian Lighthorse.

sums it all up
"They had no choice"

the Animals in War monument - London
mule, donkey, pigeon, dog and heavy horse

g'day all,
off the topic but if you want background knowledge into the history of this place then buy, beg, borrow or steal David Loyn's book, 'In Afghanistan' ( two hundred years of British, Russian and American occupation.
The Times said,'---it should be slipped into Barack Obamas christmas ...

Try this link for one of the loneliest memorials in Australia,

http://www.warmemorialsnsw.asn.au/Details.cfm?MemNo=417

dekenai

G'day Tom,

It truly is a cracker of a book! Should be taught in our schools as part of the history syllabus. I know of a couple of the characters mentioned.
thanks
Richard