My granddad served in India before World War One started.  He was in the Royal Field Artillery and worked with teams of horses pulling the caissons and the ammunition wagons.  He loved working with the horses so much that he functioned more as a groom than an artilleryman, to hear him tell it.  He was offered a job by an Indian official to serve as a groom once his service ended, but grandma wouldn't leave England, so he turned the job down. He came home to England, but reinlisted for World War I.  They shipped him off to France, of course.  He told us that the horses were better than trucks in the muddy conditions, but he saw a number of horses that were hurt or injured just by the heavy equipment involved.  He was invalided out of the service after a horse kicked him in the groin and damaged one of his testicles.     Lou

Hi Lou. if you are following my talk with Nivard, my wife's Grandfather went of to France with a large group of Ostler s from the Lincolnshire area, ( that is the story that was told to my wife by her father )  and he was also invalided out, when they were badly Gassed, the result to Joseph Andrew was to send him deaf, and a premature death in 1932 in Fenton Lincolnshire.  Joseph's life was also horses, and he followed his father who was a Garthman on an estate in Wellingore, into becoming an ostler before he moved to the Adam & Eve to look after the horses there, and in 1912, he married the owner and landlord of the Adam & Eve, before joining up with other men from Lincolnshire to go to France.. Joseph became the president of the Lincolnshire Deaf Society and my wife still has all of his medals from those days.  Regards Bazza     Barry Wilson ________________________________ From: Louis Mills <louis_mills@att.net> To: "eng-lincsgen@rootsweb.com" <eng-lincsgen@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, 2 December 2011, 22:15 Subject: Re: [LIN] Redhead (Sherwood Foresters) My granddad served in India before World War One started.  He was in the Royal Field Artillery and worked with teams of horses pulling the caissons and the ammunition wagons.  He loved working with the horses so much that he functioned more as a groom than an artilleryman, to hear him tell it.  He was offered a job by an Indian official to serve as a groom once his service ended, but grandma wouldn't leave England, so he turned the job down. He came home to England, but reinlisted for World War I.  They shipped him off to France, of course.  He told us that the horses were better than trucks in the muddy conditions, but he saw a number of horses that were hurt or injured just by the heavy equipment involved.  He was invalided out of the service after a horse kicked him in the groin and damaged one of his testicles.     Lou ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ENG-LINCSGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message