A HORSE'S MEDAL.
A Russian artillery horse won a crossing the enemy's zone of fire. All bronze medal at Plevna. Orders were given for some ammunition waggons to be hurried to a spot that meant the time shells were crashing among the hordes, bringing them down in heaps and frightening sucn as escaped. Times without number did the Russian drivers, sparing neither whip nor spur, attempt to urge the'horse 3 forward, but they stood cowed and shivering with fright. Some were blindfolded; but the effect was the same, and only one 1 horse showde any willingness to go. Thereupon the driver jumped down,_ and, cutting the traces of the other horses, drove the willing one at full gallop through the fire. The waggon passed through without exploding, and after the war the horse was decorated in the manner described and the driver promot. ed.
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Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 154, 10 March 1916, Page 4 (Supplement)
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144A HORSE'S MEDAL. Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 154, 10 March 1916, Page 4 (Supplement)
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