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Innocent Heroes

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by Sigmund Brouwer


  National Library of Scotland, photographer Tom Aitken

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  CHARLIE

  28 (DONKEY)

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  A line of mules carries ammunition for field artillery. Each animal has a pair of panniers, loaded with eight rounds of what appear to be eight-kilogram (18 lb.) shells for a field gun.

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  A soldier and his mule at the Western Front.

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  A mule stuck in a shell hole. This photograph shows French soldiers trying to pull an exhausted mule out of the mud of a shell hole. A second mule has been rescued and is standing to the left.

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  Vickers machine gun crew

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  A long line of soldiers and pack mules moves across a war-torn landscape.

  National Library of Scotland, photographer John Warwick Brooke

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  BISCOTTE

  34 (DOG)

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  A bandaged dog that worked in the front line trenches, in France, during World War One. With bandages on all four paws, this dog—called Paddy—carried out a range of hazardous duties in a front line trench, despite the shellfire and poison gas.

  National Library of Scotland, photographer Tom Aitken

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  Dog rescues the wounded

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  Soldiers returning to trenches after a raid.

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  LOUISE

  38 (PACKHORSE)

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  A group of soldiers and horses

  National Library of Scotland, photographer David McLellan

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  Packhorses transporting ammunition.

  This image is available from Library and Archives Canada under the reproduction reference number PA-001231 and under the MIKAN ID number 3194763

  Public Domain

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  Soldiers struggle to pull a big gun through mud. The gun has been placed on a track created for a light railway. A makeshift tread has been fitted to the wheels of the gun in an attempt to aid its movement through the mud.

  National Library of Scotland, photographer Ernest Brooks

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  Two soldiers lifting a section of duckboard onto a packhorse.

  National Library of Scotland, photographer John Warwick Brooke

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  A Canadian battalion goes “over the top” during World War One.

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  EPILOGUE

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  An example of a permission slip: Pat Grasshopper’s pass to leave the reserve, Sarcee Indian Agency (Tsuu T’ina), southern Alberta.

  Credit: Glenbow Archives, M-1837-22b

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  Thomas McNab: First Nations soldier, George Gordon Reserve, Saskatchewan

  Thank you to George Gordon First Nation Chief and Council for permission to use this photo.

 

 

 


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