- ‘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’.
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