WAR HORSE DIES
OWNER AND GROOM GRIEVE “ Ginger,” a chestnut gelding which served with distinction throughout the Great War, has died in England, aged 34. He felt the effects of old age, and a compassionate owner has had him painlessly destroyed. Two men who knew him for nearly a quarter of a century are sad at his passing. One is his owner, Colonel E. J. Skinner, of Toddington Manor, Dunstable; the other, Torn Tanford. under whose personal care he hasten ever since the colonel, first rode him. “Ginger” went to France with the Expeditionary Force in the autumn of 1914. He was in the retreat from Mons, and was severely wounded in the second battle of Ypres.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23706, 13 January 1939, Page 12
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