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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.
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 ...
Flare guns. Hebel M1894; Sidearms. Browning FN M1900; Dreyse M1907; Frommer M1912 Stop; Gasser M1870, M1870/84 and M1873; Gasser-Kropatschek M1876; Mannlicher M1901; Mauser C96; Rast & Gasser M1898; Roth–Sauer M1900; Roth–Steyr M1907; Steyr M1912; Steyr-Pieper M1908; Steyr-Pieper M1909; Werder M1869; Submachine guns. Steyr M1912 doppel ...
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.
In the final days of the war the brigade, finally able to get into open ground, cleared nine French villages, captured around 400 enemy, with several artillery pieces and about 100 machine guns. [1] The painter Alfred Munnings was assigned as a war artist to the brigade and produced numerous paintings of the unit's men and horses. [2]
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)
Pages in category "World War I infantry weapons of the United States" The following 24 pages are in this category, out of 24 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .