PhilB Posted 27 May , 2005 Share Posted 27 May , 2005 This photo purports to show an elephant being used in a munitions work in Sheffield in WW1. Hard to believe, but is it true? Phil B Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Posted 27 May , 2005 Share Posted 27 May , 2005 Hello Phil Maybe or maybe not....but it looks like Sheffield written on the side of the tram, but then again I am a bit of a Mr Magoo. Andy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PilgrimDuke Posted 27 May , 2005 Share Posted 27 May , 2005 This photo purports to show an elephant being used in a munitions work in Sheffield in WW1. Hard to believe, but is it true? Phil B <{POST_SNAPBACK}> http://www.answers.com/main/ntquery;jsessi...wp=8&sbid=lc02a The link above shows the picture and states that it was originally published in the Illustrated War News on 9 February 1916. I don't know if that was a reliable source back then, but it does seem to state that it was used for munitions work in Sheffield. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bert Heyvaert Posted 30 May , 2005 Share Posted 30 May , 2005 I heard this story as well when I was studying in Sheffield last year. Bert Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Landsturm Posted 30 May , 2005 Share Posted 30 May , 2005 Didn*t we had this "animals making their war effort"-discussion earlier? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest siren Posted 12 December , 2005 Share Posted 12 December , 2005 Didn*t we had this "animals making their war effort"-discussion earlier? The story is true. The elephant was called Lizzie and it worked for T. W. Ward Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kath Posted 12 December , 2005 Share Posted 12 December , 2005 (edited) Don't forget the camels. http://www.picturesheffield.com/database.html Kath. Edited 12 December , 2005 by Kath Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raster Scanning Posted 12 December , 2005 Share Posted 12 December , 2005 The caption under the picture in IWN dated Feb 9th 1916 reads as follows. "A popular war sight for Sheffield people is shown in the above illustration. The elephant in question, seen at work in the streets of the city, belongs to a menagerie and has been hired by a firm engaged on war work for cartage with a lorry and helping in hauling heavy loads. It does, it is stated, the work of five horses, drawing eight tons easily. Everyone, of course, knows the story of how the elephants at Moulmein, in Burmah, are regularly employed in hauling teak logs, as told in Kipling's verse. In the Indian Army elephants were used in ancient times with the heavy artillery, both in the old Mogul Empire days and in recent years in the Hyderabad Contingent for drawing the big position guns" {Photo by Topical} Cheers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spike10764 Posted 13 December , 2005 Share Posted 13 December , 2005 (edited) Using an elephant from a local menagerie, that's total war illustrated in an exemplary manner. The title drew me in "Elephants in Sheffield" -you couldn't ignore a title like that could you???? Edited 13 December , 2005 by spike10764 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marco Posted 13 December , 2005 Share Posted 13 December , 2005 Being more pacifistic (is that an English word?) than the British the Germans only used elephants for plowing... Regards, Marco Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awakefield Posted 13 December , 2005 Share Posted 13 December , 2005 Amongst the WWII British official photos at the IWM are a couple showing two circus elephants (Kiri a 35 year old Ceylonese elephant and Many (pronounced Mainy) a 25 year old Burmese elephant) clearing wrecked vehicles from a street in Hamburg. During the war both elephants had been used by the civil authorities in the city to clear wreckage after air raids and they continued in this role in the immediate aftermath of the war. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tintin1689 Posted 13 December , 2005 Share Posted 13 December , 2005 The German Mahout is a sailor! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marco Posted 13 December , 2005 Share Posted 13 December , 2005 The German Mahout is a sailor! Naturally he is! What on earth would the German Army want with an elephant?! Regards, Marco Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilB Posted 13 December , 2005 Author Share Posted 13 December , 2005 At least, with jumbo, there`s little risk of this! Phil B Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cnock Posted 26 December , 2005 Share Posted 26 December , 2005 Hello, Germans elephants were not used for plowing! Two elephants were working in an Engineers unit. Regards, Cnock Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cnock Posted 26 December , 2005 Share Posted 26 December , 2005 Another pic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ian turner Posted 27 December , 2005 Share Posted 27 December , 2005 C'mon you guys, this is old hat! There was this chap called Hanibal, who I believe put elephants to good wartime use? I am hurriedly searching for my copy of the Roman Times History of the War for a photo.... Ian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ssmith Posted 19 January , 2006 Share Posted 19 January , 2006 There are a few pictures of Lizzie on the Picture Sheffield site. Just search for elephants. She worked for Tommy Wards as we knew it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilB Posted 20 January , 2006 Author Share Posted 20 January , 2006 Not the Tommy Ward that destroyed all those beautiful steam locos? Phil B Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ssmith Posted 21 January , 2006 Share Posted 21 January , 2006 Now that is something Sheffield is not proud of but metal is metal. As they say where there's muck there's brass. Sue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coldstreamer Posted 21 January , 2006 Share Posted 21 January , 2006 Hello Captain Blackadder made reference to elephants being used by the Germans whilst on a "patrol" Ian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ssmith Posted 28 January , 2006 Share Posted 28 January , 2006 Not the Tommy Ward that destroyed all those beautiful steam locos? Phil B Just to show I love steam engines. It's me on a recent visit to York. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilB Posted 28 January , 2006 Author Share Posted 28 January , 2006 You`re forgiven! They were never that clean in practice you know. Not on the LMS either. Except for the GWR Kings hauling Cardiff - Paddington! They gleamed. Phil B Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Dennis Posted 31 January , 2006 Share Posted 31 January , 2006 Amongst the WWII British official photos at the IWM are a couple showing two circus elephants (Kiri a 35 year old Ceylonese elephant and Many (pronounced Mainy) a 25 year old Burmese elephant) clearing wrecked vehicles from a street in Hamburg. During the war both elephants had been used by the civil authorities in the city to clear wreckage after air raids and they continued in this role in the immediate aftermath of the war. Hello Alan, am I right in thinking that there were originally four elephants in Hamburg zoo used for such war work, and that two (plus penguins) were sent to Switzerland for safekeepling? This is supposed to have inspired the Oliver Reed film Hannibal Brooks, which was fun but needed penguins. Bruce Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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