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.2005.115757

Inscriptions:
Recto, [no inscription]; Verso, typed label: BLACK HORSES FOR THE HOUSEHOLD CAVALRY – A GIFT FROM HOLLAND. / Sixteen fine black horses are now undergoing their military / training at the army 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 some time in quarantine at Melton Mowbray / PHOTO SHOWS: - Some of the black horses at exercise at the Melton / Mowbray depot in Leicestershire. / 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