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Army Service Corps Horse, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/3072
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Photograph of an Army Service Corps horse standing in a field with a man in uniform holding it's lead in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Demobilising the Horses, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/1975
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Photograph of a horse used by the Army rearing up on its hind legs with a few soldiers trying to control it as it was being demobilised after World War I.

Dates: 1870s-1930s
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Alexander Murray, 8th Earl of Dunmore or 'Viscount Fincastle', 17 August 1904

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/10/91
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Fincastle requests to visit Ewart to see his Highland ponies as he is interested in the improvement of existing Highland breeds and their utilisation for military purposes.

Dates: 17 August 1904
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from C.L Thylor, 16 August 1900

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/6/24
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Thylor states that he will gladly visit Ewart to view his hybrids. He supplies him with the addresses of several military men who he believes may be able to give him the information he requires regarding the use of horses, and in particular hybrids, in military action. Thylor proffers the opinion that the hybrids, because of their conspicuous stripes, may not be suited to military work in the field, though they would be suited to ambulance work.

Dates: 16 August 1900
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Digby Wentworth Bayard Willoughby, 9th Baron Middleton, 25 September 1915

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/21/17
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Willoughby, who signs himself 'Middleton', writes concerning his Highland ponies which went from him last year for the War. He reports that the ponies, now based in the Dardanelles, are all faring well, except the pony by Ewart's stallion, which has been killed by a shell. Willoughby is now breeding hunters from Highland ponies, using a thoroughbred horse 'Red Eagle'.

Dates: 25 September 1915
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from F. Lort-Phillips, plus 2 typed copies, 04 January 1916

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/22/5
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Lort-Phillips criticises the conduct of the Board of Agriculture for their collaboration with the Hunters Improvement Society in the army horse breeding scheme. He disparages the emphasis that has been placed on the Premium Thoroughbred horse, 'the wretched brutes that have done more harm to Light Horse Breeding than anything else.'

There are also two typed copies of the letter, presumably made at a later date.

Dates: 04 January 1916
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from James N. Forsyth, 02 April 1908

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/14/12
Scope and Contents Forsyth writes that Arthur Cecil will send his horse to Benbecula or South Uist. He has seen the negative letter from Calgary and encourages Ewart to make a reply if he thinks fit. He has forwarded Pipon's letter to the Secretary of State for Scotland with a suggestion that the Congested District Board and War Office now cooperate. He would like the yellow dun mare to go to Monkstadt (the experimental farm of the Congested Districts Board), perhaps in exchange for the two-year old filly from...
Dates: 02 April 1908
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from James Wilson, 04 October 1910

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/16/18
Scope and Contents Wilson provides some notes on the '1,000 gallon' cow, remarking that most breeds have the milk but few have the fat and that the 'pedigree fetish' currently restricts much crossing of breeds. He remarks that this line of work could have a claim on the Development Commission, to which Ewart could add 'the horse question': namely, to breed a horse that can do farm work and produce an army service corps horse when crossed by a thoroughbred. He does not believe that the Development Commissioners...
Dates: 04 October 1910
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from J.H.K Mursenden, 11 February 1912

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/18/5
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Leather requests that Ewart submit his article on the homozygous breeding and evolution of type connected with the attempts now being made by the Board of Agriculture concerning light horse breeding for national service.

Dates: 11 February 1912
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from J.L.C Koud, 31 July 1916

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/22/26
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Koud writes on behalf of the President of the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries to thank Ewart for his letter and report regarding the best means of breeding artillery horses.

Dates: 31 July 1916
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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Board of Agriculture and Fisheries (1903-1919) 4
Cecil, Arthur, Lord, 1851-1913 (captain) 2
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Mackenzie, J.H Munro, fl1902-1908 (Scottish pony breeder) 2
War Office, Whitehall (1722-1964) 2
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Ewart, James Cossar, 1851-1933 (zoologist and professor of natural history, University of Edinburgh) 1
Fairfax-Blakeborough, John, b.1883-fl.1908 (writer and social historian) 1
Forsyth, James Noel Muller, 1844-1923 (landowner, Quinish, Tobermory) 1
Hunters Improvement and National Light Horse Breeding Society (fl 1913) 1
Koud, J.L.C, fl 1916 (assistant secretary, Board of Agriculture and Fisheries) 1
Leather, J.H.K Mursenden, fl 1911 (editor) 1
Lort-Phillips, John Frederick, 1854-1926 (Lawrenny Park, Begelly, South Wales) 1
Macleod, J.J, fl 1908 (horse breeder) 1
Mantania, Fortunio, 1881-1963 (Italian artist) 1
Murray, Alexander, 8th Earl of Dunmore or 'Viscount Fincastle', 1872-1962 (British soldier and politician) 1
Olivier, Sydney Haldane, 1859-1943 (permanent secretary, Board of Agriculture) 1
Palfrey, Penry Powell, d. 1902 (equine artist) 1
Pipon, Henry, Major General, 1843-1924 (Deputy Assistant Director of Remounts) 1
Reid, W., fl 1916 (American horse dealer) 1
Rural Development Commission. Development Commission 1910-1987 (1910-2000) 1
Sinclair, John, 1st Baron Pentland, 1860-1925 (Secretary of Scotland 1905-1912 ) 1
Spanton, Captain, fl 1916 1
Thylor, CL, fl1900 1
United States. Army. Quartermaster Corps (1775 -) 1
Willoughby, Digby Wentworth Bayard, 9th Baron Middleton, 1844-1922 1
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