WAR HORSES

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 10297, 4 June 1919, Page 10

WAR HORSES

IN THE SALE KING.

From the attleheld to the sale ring B-as the fate in London recently of a number of horses which bore honourable scars of shot and shell. ibey were collected together at tho Kcclni" Kemount Depot, and were sold by auction under a demobilisation .ordej;. DMe'r¥ and" men were given the opportunity of purchasing the steeds that had served them faithfully in the various theatres of war. Many "1.,™ 0 , EDimals had seen service .since 11)14, and not a few of them, judgmb irom the many deeds of valour they had participated in, were entitled to ae- j One horse, a bay mare, was in tne retreat from Mons. Wounded three times, she was richly entitled to he demobilised, and Major C. J. Comras. of the IV.F.A.j was determined at any price not to part with her. The major liimself has been wounded four times, and is now lying in hospital, but the mare was bought by his servant tor 19 guineas. The horse is to spend the remainder of its life on the pastures of lilent. Milburn, the demobilised r<ortn Country jockey, spent nearly ihree years in France, and had charge of a pair of grey mules with his name 'marked ouu on thei rcoats. . The jockey made a special journey south, determined that his docilo and tractable friendo should, if possible, spend the remainder of their days at Malton. They were in the Cambrai affair, and also in the' great retirement of March, 1918 "I can't see them in tho hands of anvone else," declared Milburn. "Theywere my dear pals in the darkest 'days, and I have a home for them:" ■■ ■ ■ ■