Miltary use of animals WWII.

[Nick Balmer]

Hello,

As an amusing aside to this Sappers forum. An relative of mine called Teddy De Brett was a Royal Engineer officer in the 1930's. As such he was trained to ride horses.

In 1939 he was issued with a small car and a driver, and was sent to Kineton in Warwickshire to oversee the construction of the huge ordnance depot that was built there.

Many years later when he told me the tale, he said that during the following winter the whole place became such a mud bath in the intractable Warwickshire clay, that he had to request that his car was taken away, and replaced by a horse, as it was the only way he could get around the site.

Regards

Nick Balmer