Category: The Black Star Collection
Photographer: UNKNOWN
Event Date: 1946-05-18
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.115756

Inscriptions:
Recto, [no inscription]; Verso, typed label: BLACK HORSES FOR THE HOUSEHOLD CAVALRY – A GIFT FROM HOLLAND. / Sixteen fine black horses are now undergoing training at a military / depot at Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire. They are part of a gift / of thirty blacks and six greys presented by the Dutch Government / to the Household Cavalry, as a token of gratitude for the / liberation of Holland. The horses are Friesian blacks, young and / well-schooled, but “with no previous military experience.” They / are to spend a time in quarantine at Melton Mowbray while / undergoing their military training. / PHOTO SHOWS: - Some of the black horses at the Melton Mowbray / depot in Leicestershire, where they are being trained. / AND / May 18th. 1946 PN; handwritten: WWII / England / Military – Horses; stamped: COPYRIGHT / PLANET NEWS LTD. / 3 JOHNSON’S COURT / FLEET STREET, E.C.4. / PHONE: CENTRAL 3671//3; stamped: [star shape] / Credit: / from BLACK STAR / GRAYBAR BUILDING, NEW YORK

Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: WWII ENGLAND / MILITARY DOGS AND HORSES
Retouching: N