A cavalry officer casually smoking a pipe as his horse picks its way down the steep slope of a mine crater. A great degree of horsemanship must have been needed to control horses in the extreme noise and difficult ground conditions of the Western Front.<br><p>It is perhaps worth remembering that many cavalrymen would have learnt their riding skills in the fox-hunting field. At the beginning of the twentieth century fox-hunting was neither regarded as cruel nor was it solely restricted to the very rich.<br>
[Original reads: 'A Cavalry Officer negotiates a mined road.']<br></p>
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