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Devils on Horses highlights the enduring bond between soldiers and their horses, which offers comfort and emotional supp | dG1fU3BSTlJyRkdqSHM
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00:00World War I, Australia sent 130,000 horses, New Zealand sent 10,000 plus.
00:15Horses have been instrumental in farming and warfare and modern transports for human beings.
00:20Man and horse became, I mean it was a bomb.
00:24Vehicles in those days were not capable of working through the sand.
00:29The horse was a very important military unit.
00:32The Ottoman cavalry always joined the battle with their horses using their lances.
00:38You've got a piece of government equipment marked with a broad arrow and yet it's got a personality.
00:45Could trust their riders enough to go into battle.
00:48I mean charging into a maelstrom where you're being shot at, shelled, machine gunned.
00:52People are dying and your horses are dying all around you and yet you still do the job you're there to do.
00:58He looks to you with those big eyes.
01:00Your best mate in the world is shot from underneath you.
01:03That's devastating.
01:05You may have survived physically, there'd be no physical signs of wounding but you know mentally there are some scars.
01:12You know my grandfather you know took his own life a decade after he returned.
01:15Australia sent around 136,000 horses and only one horse returned.
01:31Australia sent around 136,000 horses and only one horse returned.
01:36The
01:46Taliban
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