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Description: | Cavalry: Horses belonging to officers of the Northumberland Hussars stabled during wintry conditions in the ruins of a cottage damaged by shellfire at Etricourt. Stabling arrangements on the Western Front were very primitive where they existed at all. Many horses died of exposure.
Officers' horses stabled in a shell-ruined cottage. Etricourt, 1 January, 1918. Northumberland Hussars.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Animals Weather Western Front 1914-1918 British Army Northumberland Hussars Accommodation | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Aitken T K (2nd Lt) | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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