World War I (1914–1918) saw an unprecedented reliance on equine power, with an estimated 8 million horses, donkeys, and mules used during the ... of horses in military history, as mechanized ...

Others are trained to keep watch for them and we're not the only animals out here ... were important and how they were used during World War One. Wilfred Owen's poems. videoWilfred Owen's poems ...

But both sides in World War One soon ... the British army, the punishment for killing or wounding one was six months imprisonment or £100 fine. Jimmy was wounded three times during the war.