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01/09/2026

Threadneedle Street, London, 1890s

30/08/2026

“Heads-up.”

This image shows light horsemen and horses, possibly at a Remount Depot in Egypt or serving with the 10th (Western Australian) Light Horse Regiment.

The need for adequate water was a constant concern in maintaining the health of the Waler horses of the Australian Light Horse serving in the operations in the Middle East.

These horses are being watered from portable canvas water troughs. This was a far more practical way than finding a natural watering hole and leading individual horses into the water.

Leading hundreds of horses to the troughs was still both time consuming and labour intensive and definite procedures were promulgated to control the process, including that an officer should be on duty at the watering place while animals were drinking.

In addition, “No man should take more than two animals at one time to drink …. animals should be watered in batches, a whole batch should be kept at the trough till all have finished and have had their heads up for at least one minute. Every batch will require from five to six minutes actually at the trough.”

Troublemakers, or ‘Kickers’, were however watered separately and with due care! Also, the far horse in the image seems to be “out of line”!

This photograph is part of the extensive Phil Sullivan 10th Light Horse Collection donated to the Army Museum of Western Australia in 2023.

Credit: via the Digital archive of ‘WA Collections’.

29/08/2026

Fair on Southampton Common. 4th June 1949.

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