Remount Collection

At work in the English Army Remount Camp Depot, WW1
Scenes at a British Army Remount Depot where horses were trained, broken in and reconditioned for service during the war. 1. hard at work at the forge. 2. trimming a draught horse, 3

Branding horses at the Army Remount Depot, WW1
A horse strongly objecting to being branded at an Army Remount Depot during the First World War. Date: 1915

Lieutenant Rimington - breaker & teacher of Army horses, WW1
Lt. Mike Rimington, late of the 37th Lancers, seen breaking unruly and vicious horses for the British Army at the Underdale Hall Remount Department near Shrewsbury in 1916

Peace Negotiations by Lawson Wood WW1 horses
Cartoon by Lawson Wood showing a British soldier trying to placate a horse with a sugar lump - a humorous comment on the number of badly behaved horses requisitioned by the British Army during

Women working in Army Remount Depot by Cecil Aldin, WW1
Sketch by Cecil Aldin for his painting of women working at one of the Army Remount Depots under his command in Berkshire during the First World War

Female Army Remount Workers during First World War
A group of women working as stable hands at an Army Remount Depot in Berkshire, overseen by the artist Cecil Aldin who was also a keen huntsman and Remount Officer for the area

Gwen Aldin at Army Remount Depot, WW1
Gwen Aldin, daughter of the artist Cecil Aldin, pictured with one of her charges at an Army Remount Depot during the First World War

Breaking light draught horses at Army Remount Depot, WW1
The First Time in Harness - breaking in light draught horses at an Army Remount Depot during the First World War. Date: 1915

Group photo, 69 Battery RFA Remount Riders, India
Group photo, 69 Battery RFA (Royal Field Artillery) Remount Riders, Rawalpindi, India. 1906

Women working at Army Remount Depot, WW1
Soldiers places taken up by ladies from the hunting field at an Army Remount Depot. Two girls here shown mucking out the stables. Date: 1916

Grooming a mule, WW1
Three soldiers struggling to groom an unruly mule in his stall with one of them grumbling, " Nah tehn, Undred Legs!" Date: 1916

Monday morning exercise, Army Remount Depot, WW1
Unruly mules proving hard to control during a Monday morning exercise at an Army Remount Depot with mounted N.C.Os rounding them up. Date: 1916

Halting a mule, WW1
A soldier has difficult trying to bring an unruly mule to a halt at an Army Remount Depot, as a mule has no " mouth" in the same way a horse responds to a bridle). Date: 1916

Trying to shoe a mule, WW1
Men at an Army Remount Department attempt, with difficulty, an unmanageable mule during the First World War. Date: 1916

Women working at convalescent remount depot, WW1
Scenes at a convalescent army remount, where forty to fifty hunting women were employed

Tournament (Smith)
Lances are shattered as two knights meet in a joust; both are attended by their squires who furnish them with fresh lances and help them to remount, if required. Date: 1450

Remount depot WWI
Official photograph of remount depot on the Egyptian coast picturing the mobbing of the mules during World War I

Egyptian Remount depot WWI
The 44th Squadron at an Egyptian remount depot near the coast. Exercising the mules and going down the steep sides of a sand-covered disused quarry

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