This web feature was written by Imelda Bargas and produced by the NZHistory team.
Links
- Sinai campaign (NZHistory)
- Palestine campaign (NZHistory)
- War - Horses (Te Ara)
- Wartime 44 – They shot the horses didn’t they? (Australian War Memorial)
- A. Briscoe Moore, The Mounted Riflemen in Sinai and Palestine: the story of New Zealand’s Crusaders, Whitcombe & Tombs, Auckland, 1920 (NZETC)
- Lt J.R. Byrne, New Zealand artillery in the field 1914-1918, Whitcombe & Tombs, Auckland, 1922 (NZETC)
- A.D. Carbery, The New Zealand Medical Service in the Great War 1914-1918, Whitcombe & Tombs, Auckland, 1924 (NZETC)
- Col. C.G. Powles, The history of the Canterbury Mounted Rifles 1914-1919, Whitcombe & Tombs, Auckland, 1928 (NZETC)
- Lt-Col C.G. Powles, The New Zealanders in Sinai and Palestine, Whitcombe & Tombs, Wellington, 1922 (NZETC)
- C.J. Reakes, ‘New Zealand Veterinary Corps’, in H.T.B. Drew (ed.), The war effort of New Zealand, Whitcombe & Tombs, Auckland, 1923 (NZETC)
- Fred Waite, The New Zealanders at Gallipoli, Whitcombe & Tombs, Christchurch, 1919 (NZETC)
Books
- History of the 5th Battery, 2nd NZA/FA Brigade 1914-1918, Whitcombe & Tombs, Christchurch, 192?
- Maj.-Gen. Sir L.J. Blenkinsop and Lt-Col. J.W. Rainey (eds), History of the Great War based on official documents: veterinary services, HM’s Stationery Office, London, 1925
- Terry Kinloch, Devils on horses: in the words of the Anzacs in the Middle East 1916–19, Exisle, Auckland, 2007
- Terry Kinloch, Echoes of Gallipoli: in the words of New Zealand’s Mounted Riflemen, Exisle, Auckland, 2005
- Don Mackay (ed.), The troopers’ tale: the history of the Otago Mounted Rifles, Turnbull Ross, Gore, 2012
- Julia Millen, Salute to service: a history of the Royal New Zealand Corps of Transport and its predecessors 1860-1996, Victoria University Press, Wellington, 1997, pp. 96-106
- Marcus Wilson, A history of New Zealand’s military horse: the experience of the horse in the Anglo-Boer War and World War One, University of Canterbury, 2007
Bulls Museum have a permanent display on Bess and the other horses, including King's saddle.
