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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 27 December 2024. Use of horses during World War I (1914–1918) A Canadian cavalry recruitment poster The use of horses in World War I marked a transitional period in the evolution of armed conflict. Cavalry units were initially considered essential offensive elements of a military force, but over the ...
Horses of the King's Troop pass Wellington Arch drawing the gun carriage upon which is the coffin of Diana, Princess of Wales, in 1997. 13-pounder guns of King's Troop, Royal Horse Artillery, at the 2009 Trooping the Colour. The King's Troop riding in Hyde Park in preparation for a Royal Salute for the birthday of Prince Charles in 2012.
I Battery began firing directly on the German guns, now exposed by the clearing mist, as did the machine guns of the 1st Middlesex Regiment; the German horses took heavy casualties, and when the artillery withdrew eight of the guns had to be abandoned for lack of horses to pull them. [21]
Tachankas turret used in WWI. Tachanka armed with a PM M1910 in the Huliaipole museum. A tachanka (Russian and Ukrainian: тачанка) was a horse-drawn cart (such as charabanc) or an open wagon with a heavy machine gun mounted on the rear side. A tachanka could be pulled by two to four horses and required a crew of two or three (one driver ...
Horse artillery—rows of limbers and caissons, each pulled by teams of six horses with three postilion riders and an escort on horseback (1933, Poland). A limber is a two-wheeled cart designed to support the trail of an artillery piece, or the stock of a field carriage such as a caisson or traveling forge, allowing it to be towed.
A lifesize model of a Swedish 1850s horse artillery team towing a light artillery piece, in the Swedish Army Museum, Stockholm.. Horse artillery was a type of light, fast-moving, and fast-firing field artillery that consisted of light cannons or howitzers attached to light but sturdy two-wheeled carriages called caissons or limbers, with the individual crewmen riding on horses.
[3]: p 24 Initially, there was a clear distinction between the mounted Royal Horse Artillery and the rest of the Royal Artillery, who were dismounted. Whenever horses were needed for the rest of the Artillery (as they routinely were, to move field guns from place to place) they had to be hired along with civilian drivers.
The Néry Gun and limber, used during the action at Néry, 1 September 1914. [7] [8] No.4 Gun, E Battery Royal Horse Artillery; fired the first British artillery round on the Western Front, August 1914. [4] Cart and Wagon Shed heritage centre, Shoeburyness; Canadian War Museum, Ottawa; Fort de Seclin – 1914/1918 Museum (near Fromelles)