Success! A grand-father’s book is found

While I busied myself looking at books inside the research room of Canada’s War Museum in Ottawa, my wife did some snooping of her own.

With great success I must say.


[“The Horse in War,” by Lieut.-Col. D.S. Tamblyn: photos PH/GH]

More than once I reached for my camera and saw her with it, focussing on pictures and text from her grand-father’s book about the horses that were pressed into service during WW1.


[“Snookums beat the odds and survived WW1”]


[“Snookums retired to Brussels, Belgium”]


[“About 256,000 horses were lost by British forces alone”]


[“About 56,000 were lost in battle, the rest by exposure to harsh conditions”]

My wife thinks we have a copy of the book here at home - somewhere.

The hunt begins. I’m hoping for more success.

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