2-752-190 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Indian Horse Transport for the Tigris Force', First World War, 1916, (c1920). '...embarking horses on the Shatt-el-Arab [river in southern Iraq] from an improvised wooden pier...The horses for the cavalry with the Tigris force were taken up by steamer under charge of Indian troops. In the picture the horses are seen waiting in rows under an awning on the river pier.' From "The Great World War: A History", Volume V, edited by Frank A Mumby. [The Gresham Publishing Company Ltd, London, c1920]