A holocaust for horses, 1917
The devastation that a single shell could wreak is bleakly summarised in this drawing by Frank Dadd, entitled Wiped out by a single shell: a holocaust of horses in the danger zone. The image was reproduced in The Graphic in June 1917, accompanied by this extract from a machine gun officer's diary, A little way up the road we came upon a General Service waggon, with a team of horses lying dead beside it. A shell had exploded in the midst of them, killing the lot at once
Picture No
11077317
Media ID
48574416
Size
4952px x 6881px
(5.7MB)
Credit
Mary Evans Picture Library
Source
Illustration by Frank Dadd in The Graphic, 9th June 1917, page 676
Date
1917
