Clabby, J and Sugden, C - The History of the Royal Army Veterinary Corps 1919-1961

J A Allen, London, 1963. 244 pages, indexes, apps, illustrations and sketch maps. Up to and during the Second World War the British Army still employed many thousand animals including horses, mules, camels, donkeys, elephants and dogs. Members of the RAVC deployed on operations where there was a high usage of animals, perhaps the best known being the Chindit expeditions that used mules to carry supplies and weapons in the Burmese jungles behind enemy lines. Sl handling wear to grey cloth boards, no dj. G.