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The words below are mostly related to horses used in war times. You may find them useful for your poems!

‘Advance!’

Adventure

Aircraft

alert

Allies

ambulances

ammunition

ammunition pouch

angrily

animals

apprehension

anticipation

ANZACS

Army

armistice

artillery

artillery fire

artillery men

astride

attack

Australians

Australian Light Horse Regiment

autumn

bandage

bandoliers

barbed wire

bareback

barrage

Battlefield

Battle

Battalion

bay

Bayonet

Beaches

Beast

bedding

Belgium

belly

Below deck

Binoculars

bit

blacksmith

blanket

blasted

Bleeding

Blood

blinded

Blinker

blistering

bombs

booming guns

boots

bored

bravery

breed

bridle

British

Buck

Bucked

bullets

bully beef

burial

Butt of the rifle

Camel

camp

Campaign

cantankerous

canteen

canter

canvas

canvas water bucket

captain

capture

Carrier pigeons

Carts

carrying

casualties

cavalry

chafe

champing

charge

cheering

chestnut

choking

clambered

climate

clip-clop

clung

colt

companion

compass

conscription

convoy

cordite

cordon

courage

cove

cramped

creatures

crouched

cruel

cumbersome

dappled

dangling

dawn

deafening

deck

deck stall

defend

deployed

desert

destroyed

destruction

disease

dismount

Donkey

dread

drone

Dugout

Dusk

dust

Dysentery

East

Edgy

Egypt

emergency

enemy

EnZeds

erupted

equine

escape

evacuation

exercise

exploding shells

exposed

Expeditionary Force

farrier

farm

fear

‘feed up’

fields

field ambulance

field dressing

fighting

filly

firing

firing line

first-aid

flank

flies

flinched

foal

fodder

food

forage

forehead

footing

foul tasting

France

fray

French

frolicking

Frostbite

gait

gallantry

Gallipoli

Galloping

Gang plank

Gas

Gash

gaunt

‘geegee’

Gelding

gently

Germany

Girth strap

Grains

grass

graves

grazing

gripping

grit

groomed

grooming kit

groundsheet

grueling

gullies

gun fire

guns

hair

hair loss

‘Halt!’

Halter

harbour

harness

harsh

hay

hauled

haversack

head collar

Head Quarters

helmet

hero

hind legs

hitched

hobbles

hods – hollow between hills

hoisted

hoof

hoof mark

hooves

horizon

horse

horse holders

horsemanship

horseshoe

hospital

hostile

huddled

hungry

hurt

infantry

influenza

injured

inspirational

instinct

Jack

jumping

Kaiser

khaki uniform

kicked

‘King & Country’

King George

lame

lagoon

landing

leapt

led

Lewis gun

Lice

lick

limp

livestock

loaded-gun

logistics

lugged

lugging

lurched

machine guns

mail

Maori Battalion

Mane

mangy

march

mare

master

mascot

mealies (cornmash)

medics

Medical Core

Messengers

Mess tin

mission

Mount

Mountain gun

Mounted Brigade

Mounted riflemen

‘mucked out’

Mud

mule

Mutilated

Muzzle

Nag

neigh

neglect

nervous

New Zealanders

No Man’s Land

North

nosebag

Nostrils

Officer

‘Ón-foot’

orders

ordnance

Otago Mounted Riles Regiment

outbreak

Outpost

outnumbered

Overloaded

Pack horses

Paddocks

patrols

patted

pelted

penned

perimeter

picketing ropes

pistol

pitch-black

plodded

plough

pontoon

pounded

prance

Prisoners of War

provisions

quarantine regulations

raids

raiding party

railway lines

rations

rank

rats

recoil

reconnaissance

recuited

refugees

regal

regiment

regulations

reins

reinforcements

reputation

retreat

reveille

ride

ridges

rifles

receive orders

recover

rescue

rode

rope

route

rub down

rugged

saddle

saddlery

sand

sand dunes

sand hills

sandstorms

salute

scents

scorching

screaming shells

serving

sea voyage

sensed

sentries

sentry duty

sergeant

shade

shield

ship

shells

shellfire

shelling

shelter

shod

shook

shoveled

shy-away

sick

signal

signalers

simmering

skittish

sling

slippery

sniper

snorting

snorted

somber

soldiers

somber

sores

south

spokes

spring

spurs

spurred

squadron

stables

stabled

stagged

stall

stallion

stamped

stampede

‘Stand to’

Starving

steady

steed

stirrups

stomp

stomped

straggler

straps

straw

stretcher bearer

stretches

stroked

stubbornly

stud

squealed

suffer

suffering

summer

sunburnt

sunrise

sunset

sunstroke

supplies

swarms

sweat

swerved

swollen tongue

tail

tangled

tanks

targets

teeth

temperament

temperatures

tents

tentatively

tension

tethered

thirty

thoroughbred

thrusting

tibbin (barley & straw to eat)

ticks (burnt off by cigarettes)

telegraph line

tossed

training

transportation

treatment

trek

trenches

trepidation

troops

trot

trust

tumble

Turkey

Gallop

Unbridled

unfazed

uniform

valley

Vets

Veterinary care

Vickers machine gun

villages

wagons

wandering

war correspondent

wagon

wagon axle

wagon wheel (spokes)

war horse

watches

water

water bottles

waterholes

waterproof

water troughs

waving

weapon

west

Western Front

wharf

‘Whoa!’

Whine

whinnied

whipped

whistle

white flag

whizzed

winter

wobbled

worn-out

wounded

valiant

yanked

yoke