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Tanks and horses at the Battle of the Somme

Tanks and horses at the Battle of the Somme

The old and the new – a horse-drawn team passes a tank that seems to have broken down on the side of the road. Over 100,000 British horses were estimated to have been killed in the Somme offensive.

J.R. Byrne, New Zealand artillery in the field, Whitcombe & Tombs, 1922

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