the 44TH REMOUNT SQUADRON ON THE EGYPTIAN COAST [Main]


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  • Year: 1917
  • Runtime: 20 mins
  • Description: The squadron exists to train fresh horses and mules for British Army war service. The horses are taught to keep at a steady walk in formation when other horses are galloping past at an angle. Various manoeuvres of a squadron in column of troops (according to the 1912 Cavalry Training Manual). Horses and large mules being taught to get up and down a steep embankment with a rider, and horses being exercised in the shallows of the sea. There is a brief shot of horses drinking from a trough, then a sequence of a large herd of mules "being taught to play follow the leader" at a gallop behind a single horseman. There follows "breaking obstinate animals" in a menage, both to the saddle and to pull a wagon, teaching mules to jump low walls and fences while being ridden, a general inspection, and the squadron loading horses onto a transport train, ending with a message held up to the camera on a board, "44th Remount Squadron, loading 100 horses, time 2 minutes 32 seconds".
    Training and loading methods of a British Army remount squadron in Egypt, probably 1917.
  • Keywords: EFG1914 / World War I / British Army, Egyptian Expeditionary Force / British Army, Remount Squadron 44 / animals, mammals: horse / animals, mammals: mule / training, British military - specialist: equestrian / training, British military - specialist: mules / transport, British military - rail: horse transporter / 01/3(569) / Egypt / desert
  • Provider: Imperial War Museums
  • Rights: In Copyright / Imperial War Museums
  • Production company: Topical Film Company
  • Colour: Black & White
  • Sound: Without sound