‘Warrior’ A horse in War & Peace.(16).

‘Warrior’-A fine horse in War & Peace.

 

 

 

  ‘Warrior: Locally a famous & popular Police white gelding (?).

 

 “Warrior’ served on the Western Front during World War 1 , he was wounded by shrapnel & afterwards as a Southampton Police

Horse.  He died -22nd August 1935 & was buried in a ‘horse-shoe shaped’ grave, with a large headstone, on the Sports Centre-100 yards south of the Golf Pavilion.

Courtesy Southern Daily Echo.

 

 NB. The lettering is becoming illegible &

needs attention.

It would be great to record him in the proposed ‘Cenotaph’  ‘glass panels’.