VIDEO AND AUDIO: REMOUNT AND VETERINARY ACTIVITIES IN THE AEF

Jim Davis has posted on You Tube Motion Picture footage of the Remount and the Veterinary Corps. This is a must to view! I have been searching so long for information and pictures of the Veterinary Corps and Remount Service and to be able to see footage was beyond believe for me. Jim has posted many other films from the Archives on his You Tube Webpage that is worth checking out. I would like to thank Jim for his help and kindness and along with a few of his friends that he works with. Jim has posted REELS NO 1,2 and 3 on You Tube

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NOTE: JIM HAS ADDED MUSIC TO THE ORIGINAL SILENT FILM; YOU MAY WANT TO TURN YOUR VOLUME DOWN OR OFF

REEL 1 REMOUNT AND VETERINARY ACTIVITIES IN THE AEF 1918-1919

REEL 2 REMOUNT AND VETERINARY ACTIVITIES IN THE AEF 1918-1919

REEL 3 REMOUNT AND VETERINARY ACTIVITIES IN THE AEF 1918-1919

VIDEO AND AUDIO: OTHER POINTS OF INTEREST

HORSE ARTILLERY TRAINING AND ORGANIZATION AT FORT BLISS, TX 1936-1942 PART 1. Jerry Eades oral account of horse artillery organization and training at Ft. Bliss, TX in preparation for WW II. Slide show of photos taken of 82nd Field Artillery Regiment, 61st Field Artillery Battalion and 62nd Field Artillery Battalion Note: This is a wonderful narration of the description of the life in the Field Artillery and Cavalry in the late 1930’s and early 1940. DO NOT MISS THIS ONE!

Jerry W. Eades U.S. Army Horse Artillery Training and Organization at Ft. Bliss, TX 1936-1942

JERRY W. EADES HORSE ARTILLERY AND ADDRESS TO THE 62nd AFA REUNION PART 2 Operations and Training of the Horse Artillery (Part 2) of the 82nd Artillery Regiment, 61st Artillery Battalion, 62nd Artillery Battalion ay Ft. Bliss, TX, 1936 - 1942. Audio recollection of an address to the 62nd Armored Field Artillery Battalion Association Reunion in 1980's. Slides of the WW II soldiers from these units Note: This is a wonderful narration of the description of the life in the Field Artillery and Cavalry in the late 1930’s and early 1940. DO NOT MISS THIS ONE!

Jerry W. Eades Horse Artillery and Address to 62nd AFA Bn Reunion PART 2

BUGLE CALLS AND MILLITARY MUSIC BY JERRY W. EADES Demonstration of Cavalry and Artillery bugle calls by Jerry W. Eades, bugler for the 62nd Field Artillery Battalion from 1936 - 1942

BUGLE CALLS AND MILLITARY MUSIC BY JERRY W. EADES

D DAY LANDING ON OMAHA BEACH ORAL ACCOUNT BY JERRY W. EADES Oral account by Jerry W. Eades of his experiences and memories of landing on Omaha Beach on D Day, June, 6, 1944. Sgt. Eades of the 62nd AFA Bn, landed from an LCT with an M7 Preist self propelled artillery. The accompanying slide show is from photos taken by the 62nd soldiers. From horse artillery training at Ft. Bliss, to the Louisiana Manuvers, North Africa, Sicily, England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany and Czechoslavakia, the 62nd soldiers endured 424 days of combat. DO NOT MISS THIS ONE!

D DAY LANDING ON OMAHA BEACH ORAL ACCOUNT BY JERRY W. EADES

AUDIO: YOU CAN NOW LISTEN TO LEONARD SEBASTIAN WHO WAS STATIONED AT VETERINARY HOSPITAL NO 8 IN FRANCE DURING WW1

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Update April 25 2008: The sound problem is that the new version of Adobe Flash Player is causing skip and squeak and pops in the Audio. I have installed the old version of Adobe Flash Player 8.0.42.0 and this has fixed the problem on my computers. Adobe seems to be unavailable for help at this time creating a patch for the problem and is causing a lot of problem with many of their uses. Because the problem is in Adobe Flash Player there is not much I can do at this time.

WW1 SIGNAL CORPS PICTURES OF THE VETERINARY CORPS AND REMOUNT SERVICE

Images courtesy of the National Museum of Health and Medicine, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington, D.C

For a long time I have been searching for the Official Signal Corps Pictures of the Veterinary Corps during WW1. I am finally beginning to locate these pictures and I will be sharing them with you in the future.

I have been working with the National Museum of Health and Medicine, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, in Washington, D.C for a long time and a lot of information on this website has come from there. I would first like to thank Michael Rhode for all his assistance in making this all possible and then to his assistants Cathy F. Sorge who was the first to assist me in my research and recently Kathleen Stocker. Both Cathy and Kathleen have spent hours going through their archives searching for information for me. And a huge “Thank you “ to Kathleen who is bringing to the light the pictures of the Veterinary Corps and Remount Service from their collection. Kathleen has been kind and gracious in getting these pictures to me and with out their help these pictures would not be coming to us. With these pictures we can get a glimpse of who and what the Veterinary Corps and Remount Service was during the Great World War. I have been very excited in seeing these pictures that have helped me to understand my grandfather Leonard Murphy’s walk in the Veterinary Corps and being in France during the War. I would once again like to thank Michael, Cathy and Kathleen for all they have done to make this possible.

Most Sincerely

Greg Krenzelok – Veterinary Corps Website

I would like to Credit:

Michael Rhode, Archivist
Otis Historical Archives
National Museum of Health and Medicine
Armed Forces Institute of Pathology
Washington, DC

Catherine F. Sorge, Assistant Archivist
Otis Historical Archives
National Museum of Health and Medicine
Armed Forces Institute of Pathology
Washington, DC -

Kathleen Stocker, MLS
Assistant Archivist
Otis Historical Archives
National Museum of Health and Medicine
Armed Forces Institute of Pathology
Washington, DC

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reeve10802- Sick horses taken to rear for treatment horse are tied in a pickett line. Near Rearcourt, France. 09/26/1918

reeve12448 - Veterinary Hospital No 1 Neufchateau, France. The first of the treatment in treating mange is clipping the animals

reeve14727 - U.S. Army Veterinary Hospital No. 3, La Valdahon, France. Horse is strapped and being lowered in position to be operated upon for gunshot wound.

reeve14734 - Veterinary. Horse. 1st Lt. Lieutenant R.F. Okershauser making a Mallein test for glanders. All animals receive this treatment every 20 days for glanders. La Valdahon, Doubs, France. 01/28/1919

reeve14379 - Veterinary corps. 01/22/1919. Montabaur, Germany. Scraping. General view of artillery horses after a bath composed of sulphur, lime, carbolic acid and creosote. 1st Division.

reeve14378 - Veterinary corps. 01/22/1919. Montabaur, Germany. 1st Division. General view of artillery horses being led to the dipping vat, constructed by the 1st Engineers, for the Veterinary Department. The animals take a plunge in the bath composed of sulphur, lime, carbolic acid and creosote. The bath is kept at a temperature of 100 degrees Fahrenheit. After the plunge the animals are scraped. This is the method of treating these animals for the mange and cooties. Horses are bathed at the rate of one a minute.

reeve014380 - Veterinary corps. 01/22/1919. Montabaur, Germany. “Ready to plunge.” Artillery horses about to take bath. Dipping vat.

reeve014382 - Veterinary corps. 01/22/1919. Montabaur, Germany. Pulling the horse into the dipping vat using ropes.

reeve014381 - Veterinary corps. 01/22/1919. Montabaur, Germany. “The Plung.” Artillery horse taking bath composed of sulphur, lime, carbolic acid, and creosote. Dipping vat

reeve015315 - Mallein Test, a process for testing Glanders. Weis, Germany. 63rd Brigade Headquarters, Veterinary Officer

reeve015317 - 32nd Division Veterinary Camp. 02/05/1919. Dierdorf, Rhenish Prussia, Germany. Preparing solution of lime and sulphur for use in dipping vat for horses affected with mange. Every third day 400 gallons of fresh solution are thrown into the vat and every tenth day the vat is entirely emptied and thoroughly cleaned. Note – An elaborate treatment has been inaugurated in the 32nd Division for the treatment of horses suffering from mange. One thousand horses can be accommodated in one vat, each day; and soon two vats will be in operation. Water in vat is kept at 110 degrees Fahrenheit and 11 feet deep at one end, completely submerging animal and tapers to shallow water at the further end. All is enclosed and the horses emerge in a room where they are thoroughly rubbed, thence taken to heated rooms for drying. Blankets are also disinfected in gas chamber. This treatment has been very successful and a statement has been made that the 32nd Division is the first to put this system in use.

reeve015339 - Remount Depot number 31. 02/26/1919. Lux, near Is sur Tille, Cote d’Or, France. Veterinary Corps building at Q.M.A.S. This view is taken from the top of the water tank, which furnishes the water supply for the entire camp

reeve015340 - Remount Depot number 31. 02/26/1919. Lux, near Is sur Tille, Cote d’Or, France. Horses being brought into remount depot at Lux. These horses are brought from Is sur Tille, where they have been used in the A. S. Supply Depot, Quartermaster Corps and are now being treated for mange and different ailments. There are 180 animals in this string.

reeve015346 - Veterinary Hospital at Quartermaster Remount Depot number 7. 12/10/1918. Merignac, Gironde, France. View of the horse and mule operating table in use at the veterinary hospital there. “The Simplicity Equine Operating Table, No. 3 Model, Veterinary Specialty Company, Holland, MICH. USA”

reeve016025 - Remount Depot number 4. 12/07/1918. La Rochelle, France. Horses that have been gassed in the Sulphuration Chamber and just brought from hospital

reeve17407 - Remount Depot number 31. Lux, France. Operating room the veterinarian is operating on horse.

reeve17575 - Above picture description: Taking horses through Liney for veterinary treatment. Lieut. John R. Morse in charge. Mobile Veterinary Section, 7th. Div. Limey, Meurthe et Moselle, France, Nov. 17, 1918

Previous to this time Captain William C. VanAllstyne, assistant division veterinarian, had converted a motor truck into an animal ambulance. The ambulance held five animals placed crosswise and separated by partition boards dropped in grooves. By means of a runway which let down behind it could be fully loaded in ten minutes. This truck ambulance did most excellent work transporting gassed, wounded and debilitated animals to the veterinary hospitals many kilometers to the rear.

reeve17408 - Gas masks. For man and horse

reeve33952 - Shell wounds of a horse undergoing treatment at the Veterinary Hospital at St. Omer A.E.F.

reeve017125 - 79th Division. 04/07/1919. Rimacourt, France. Company A. B. & C. clipping horses.

reeve13537 - 101st Field Artillery. Bras, Meuse, France. Horses being watered in a stream near a mill after it had been tested for poison. 10/18/1918; World War I.

reeve17415 - Remount Depot number 7. Bordeaux, France. Spraying stalls and feeding area

reeve33959 - Horse wounded by shrapnel, a scene at a German Veterinary Hospital in the field trying to bring the horse down to the ground so they can operate.

reeve33960 - A Horse undergoing treatment at the dipping vat at Veterinary Hospital St. Omer, A.E.F.

Veterinary Hospital No 11 Headquarters at Gièvres France during WW1

The First Veterinary Hospital was established in Neufchateau France using the few Veterinary Corps Officers available and soldiers from the 3rd Cavalry. The hospital with no equipment or water immediately began receiving patients and had to scrounge for supplies. Soon they had established a hospital with a capacity of 1000 horses staffed with borrowed manpower and ultimately handled 23,000 disabled horses from various evacuation lines.

Aux Remount Station No 319, Camp Zachary Taylor, the above picture is from the archives of the General contractor that built the camp. It was taken right after the camp was completed looking west. The men in the foreground are civilian workers on the last days of construction. The railroad track on the right side is also visible on the map, at the north end of the remount area. The RR runs east to west. Posted by "Camp Zachary Taylor Historical Society, Ken Maguire.

Aux Remount Station No 319, Camp Zachary Taylor is from the Contractors archives. It is a view down the chute to the dipping tank in the remount area. Posted by "Camp Zachary Taylor Historical Society, Ken Maguire. Note: This is a wonderful picture showing the construction of a dipping vat – Greg

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