(WORLD WAR I -- EQUID SUPPLY.) Louis Keene. Embarkation Officer, New York, U.S.A. British Remount Commission January - April 1917. 3-page typewritten account of a dock-managing Canadian Captain's experience overseeing the British Remount Commission in New York City, over 75 albumen photographs focusing on horse and mule transport, contemporary news clippings, and two typed letters from superiors commending Captain Keene's performance of duties. Photos are various sizes, mounted to album leaves. Oblong 4to, 10 1/2x14 1/2 inches, black-lettered olive cloth portfolio by L.E. Hartshorn, Hanover, N.H., minor rubbing, later string ties; some cards loose and edge-chipped but materials fine. [New York, 1917]
A colorful personal record of British efforts to keep up the supply of North American military support animals to the European front during World War I. The collection of original photographs neatly archives the activities overseen by Captain Louis Keene, R.F.A. in the port of New York City in early 1917 with images of horses and mules being loaded across the brow from river barges onto the transatlantic transport steamers, livestock accommodations, ship crews and officers, well-dressed visitors, and a picture of Captain Keene himself.
In four months under the supervision of Captain Keene, he documents that his crews shipped over 13,500 horses and mules from New York across the Atlantic to aid in the Allied war efforts.
