HEROIC RESCUE OF HORSE
EFFORTS TO SAVE ANIMAL
“Rosie” has been given a twomonths holiday, and Darcy Pettersen, five-year veteran of the A.I.F. is being called a hero. This is how it happened, states a message from Sydney. Rosie, a draught horse, one day in the course of duty backed a dray full of rubbish onto a jetty at Pyrmont. The dray tipped, but the rubbish did not fall, and horse and dray toppled back onto a barge 12 feet below. Rosie lay pinned on her back by {he harness, in grave danger of being choked.
Braving the madly lashing feet of the frightened animal, Pettersen jumped onto the barge and managed to release Rosie, who then fell into the water.
Into the water went Pettersen after her, where he struggled for over half an hour to get the horse into a position wheu’e a mobile crane could lift her out. At one time he was swimming in darkness under a wharf, among masses of molasses and sugar, but he finally accomplished his purpose. Said the gatekeeper at the wharf, “It was one of the bravest things I ever saw. Pettersen carried on just as though it was a human life he was saving. The horse would never have got out except for him.”
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 71, 10 January 1947, Page 8
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214HEROIC RESCUE OF HORSE Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 71, 10 January 1947, Page 8
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