258 Horses on Board Ship. 



because he was greatly in need of experienced 

 veterinary surgeons to send out to the Cape 

 with horses. In fact, so short-handed was 

 the A.V.D., owing to the mismanagement 

 of the War Office, that there were only six 

 military veterinary surgeons in the United 

 Kingdom at that time. The D.G. of the 

 A.V.D. has tried his utmost to impress on our 

 Government the value of veterinary help 

 throughout this war, and his patriotic efforts 

 would have obtained the success and recogni- 

 tion they deserved, but for the fact that our 

 Army is managed more on social than pro- 

 fessional lines. The Yeomanry authorities 

 ignored the A.V.D. so completely that they 

 appointed an unqualified man to be the 

 Veterinary Lieutenant of the Yeomanry con- 

 tingent which went to South Africa in the 



