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Pack horses in the First World War. Horses coped with deep mud much better than trucks. From The British Modern Military History Society’s next zoom afternoon talk is on “The Real War Horse”, with guest speaker Lucy Betteridge-Dyson. The Real War Horse explores the equine contribution to the Great War. It will look at the roles that donkeys, mules and horses played in the conflict and why, along with where they came from, their war experience and how they are remembered today. Lucy Betteridge-Dyson is a military historian and MA student (History of Britain and the First World War) at the University of Wolverhampton. She has a particular interest in the First World War along with the South-East Asian theatre of the Second World War, notably the Third Arakan Campaign. In 2019 she founded Herstory Club which aims to connect women with a passion for history on both a social and professional level. ....