Eight million horses, donkeys and mules died in World War 1 (WWI) and over a Million dogs. On Remembrance days we wear a purple poppy to honour them

"Passed away"?.... Sure. Watering down language like this really removes the hardships And dire conditions these animals experienced.

Much deserved

This is both touching and breaks my heart. On a side note, my uncle who just retired from the Navy said they still use horseback gunnery soldiers and fighters to this day. It's a lot easier to traverse rough terrain.

Another shameful, senseless slaughter that the warmongers of humanity caused... My heart hurts when I think about the animals killed in the wars we human beings wage. (Remember that these animals were taken off farms/out of the countryside and dropped into the hell that was the battlefields of WWI- imagine how terrified they must've been!).

Wow! It's really awful what we do to animals. An incredible amount of the horses that died were taken from their owners.

Not all heroes wore uniforms.

I saw War Horse onstage and wept. I'm ex-Navy, old and pretty hard. I'm shedding tears now, just looking at this photo. I need a martini. .

Passed away? Killed!

Animals have been involved in all of man's conflicts. Same as women and children.

Magnificent

In 5th grade we were looking at revolutionary war photos/paintings and in one of them there was a dead horse. Rather than feel sorry for the dead people, we all started crying and saying, "poor animals!" it was either wholesome or horrible, but our teacher just kinda let us have our moment. Is it weird that I feel worse for a dead animal than I do multiple humans?

They didn't "pass away" They were forced into a terryfying servitude until they were shot or blown up by man's stupid wars.

Kudos men kudos

This is wonderful.

Beautiful

Amazing… such coordination, and so heartwarming they remember 🥲🥹

Oh wow.

is this where the idea for War Horse came from?

it took me longer than it should’ve to see that…

A heartbreaking tribute for those thousands and thousands of noble creatures...a wonderful gesture and a pity we have not been made aware of it until now. Thank you for posting this.

War Horse scene when Joey is terrified. I get so distressed. Every time. It is a brilliant piece of cinematography.

That's a beautiful tribute

5th guy from bottom at right hand side is avoiding to look at the camera. Seems he ate a horse to make it through the war...

Awesome! So many forget the lost lives of our 4-footed friends.

😢 🐴 So horribly sad.

I just tear up with images like this, War Horse springs to mind. A friend of mine went to the Tower of London to see the poppies, which is moving enough, and the animatronic puppet (too weak a word as it is so 'real') of the stage play War Horse was there. Lots of sniffing and onion ninjas around that day.

❤️

thank you for caring.

Wow that's just beautiful ❤

War is hell

Yes, please

Incredible.

❤❤❤❤🥰🥰🥰🥰

War Horse. The theatre production. Go see it.

Not true. Just an internet rumor. Ten second Google search found that out.

I'm certain the horses donkeys and mules reading the papers at the time where deeply touched