1916 Pencil Drawing of a WW1 War Horse

Title -Dans Le Bataille! - (In the Battle)
 
Date - Sept 3rd 1916 in the War Hospital in Bradford, UK
 
Medium - Pencil Drawing on paper
 
Signed - Reub(en) A. Hallam, 46th Canadian
 
Picture size - 8.5cm x 12cm / 3.5" x 4.75"
 
Outside frame size - 21cm x 27cm / 8.25" x 10.75"
 
Condition - Excellent
 
Frame - Antique Victorian / Edwardian oak picture frame with period glass
 
A beautifully drawn but very sad and evocative pencil drawing of a WW1 War horse.
The horse is a noble and sensitive creature and the War must have been a hell on earth for the horses as well as the men.
Up to eight million horses, donkeys and mules died during WW1 and their sacrifice deserves to be fully recognised.
The 46th Battalion was an Infantry Regiment of the Canadian Army. The Regiment arrived in France on August 11th 1916 and the artist of our Picture had already been wounded and shipped out to the Military hospital in Bradford, Yorkshire, Uk by September 3rd, three weeks later, by the date of this Picture.
The 46th Canadian Infantry Battalion became known as the 'Suicide Battalion'. They fought in every conflict that the Canadian Army was involved in during WW1 and they suffered a casualty rate of over 90% dead or wounded by the end or the War.