More Cavalry Illustrations

Sometimes, there are not a lot of specific Chauleger illustrations available so one must make use of other types of cavalry to "fill in the gaps" or at least provide a useful analolgy. This is especially true in the case of "action" shots or depictions of cavalry in the field. Below are some examples.

Cavalry formation, unit unknown, on the move.



Cavlary, most likely Uhlans, in a trench. Interestingly enough is a Madsen machinegun being manned by one soldier. The Madsen machingun was used by the Russian Army in a limited number and the Germans captured many of them and issued them to cavlary for dismounted work (by the nature of their original function, they tended to lack the firepower necessary to function as infantry). From the helmets, this is late war, probably 1917/18.

13 Hussar Regiment crossing a river on March 8, 1915 in Kurland in what is today Lithuania.

Cavalry, unit unknown, Poland, June 28, 1915. The unit is clearly at rest. On the Eastern Front, cavalry still retained many of its tranditional functions.

While each of the above picture is relatively unexciting and even mundane, they still reveal a lot of details about the cavalry's daily existence.