A most interesting link appears in a very admirable book called Saddle Room Sayings, by William Fawcett The writer recounts the fact of having met a farrier who could boast that he had shod a horse which had charged with the Heavy Brigade at Waterloo, and had also shod a horse in 1914 which had been in" action at Mons and had been returned to the United Kingdom. The facts are that the farrier shod the Waterloo veteran when he was a lad of 15 and the horse was 36 in the year 1845 (the horse was a six-year-old at Waterloo). The farrier was 84 years of age when he shod the Mons horse in 1914.
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Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21120, 22 March 1934, Page 6
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