War horses
Steven Spielberg’s film War Horse was released this week. How many horses were killed in British Army service during the first world war?
— According to the Official History of the War Veterinary Services, it was 484,143.
— Michael Morpurgo, on the other hand, says he asked the Imperial War Museum before writing War Horse in 1982, and was told ‘at least a million’.
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