Should Be Worth Watching .

[chippy]

New series Great War Horses starting on BBC 4 Tuesday at 9 pm . This is the write up for the first one .
Australian Light Horse regiments . Moving account of the men and horses . The horses know as Walers were breed for the outback so were well -equipped to play a pivotal role in WW1 in the Middle East .
Should be of interest .
chippy

 

[housecarl]

Cheers Chippy.
Hope you're well.

 

[Viking Bob]

Just watched the programme, some thing that I knew very little about. Very informative and tragic for the horses.

 

[Nap]

Bugger ...missed this ...maybe on catch up

Cheers Chippy

Nap

 

[OldTaff]

It was great, both illuminating and informative, not to say very moving. Some of the photos could have been taken yesterday. Then I recalled that great film, "The Lighthorsemen"........

Alan

 

[chippy]

This was far better than I expected and provided much more information on this area of WW1 than I knew about , like how many of the horses were actually owned by the troopers . One called Midnight the guy had raised from a foal . and none of the 130,000 horses shipped over ever returned to Australia , like the end quote said "No expense was spared getting the horses to war but no money was there to bring them back . I admit that I had a lump in my throat during the scene were troopers were shooting their own mounts rather than let them go to the Egyptians who would have treated them badly .
Kevin try BBC i player , it should be on there for 28 days .
chippy