Bringing In The Team

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This is an Australian Artillery horse team being led through the dust and smoke of military action to do their days duty in the traces.

Artillery horses were fitted with breastplates rather than collars, as they were lighter and quicker to harness and unharness. Artillery horses were driven, not by a driver from behind, but by postillion riders - one rider, astride the near (left) horse for each pair of horses.

Horses used for hauling the artillery guns were the heavier, stronger type of Waler. Their job was to pull the guns to where they would be used in military action. They were unhitched and taken to a safe position while the guns were in use.

They werequickly bought back andhitched to the gun carriage should the guns need to bemoved to another position. Thus the guns could be quickly mobilised as necessary to suit the military strategy.