WW1 Logistics: The GS Mk X wagon

Before trucks and armoured vehicles dominated the battlefield, the British Army relied on horses and wagons to keep armies supplied.
Filmed at Aldershot Military Museum, this British Army General Service Wagon Mk X shows how vital horse-drawn transport was during the late 19th century and the First World War. Wagons like this carried food, ammunition, equipment, and essential supplies from railheads and depots to the front line.
Pulled by teams of horses and capable of carrying over a ton of supplies, these wagons were often the only reliable way to move equipment across the mud and shell-damaged roads of the Western Front.
Even as motor vehicles began appearing during WWI, horses and wagons remained essential. In fact, the British Army still depended on hundreds of thousands of horses and mules to keep its armies supplied.
After the war, as mechanisation improved, horse-drawn wagons gradually faded from service during the 1920s — marking the end of an era in military logistics.
Sometimes the most important military vehicle… didn’t even have an engine.

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Видео WW1 Logistics: The GS Mk X wagon канала James Langham