A GENERAL'S CHARGER.

Colonist, Volume LXI, Issue 14958, 4 January 1919, Page 2

A GENERAL'S CHARGER.

I RETURN TO AUSTRALIA.

"Sandy," one of the charters that ■accompanied the late General Bridges when he left Australia on the Orvieto in October, 1914, has returned to Australia. Alter more- than four vo{U'--v'l->»oMr-able service he has been ik-mixhz hack— partially bund, and altogether-less sleek ;iiid nery than when he went aw?v —to spend jus remaining days in the'weUgrassed paddocks near his master's grave at Duntroon. All the men in the First Australian .Division know "Sandy/ A well-bred up-standing bay, his appearance commanded ad-mration, and the late Genoral Lrmgos was immensely prokl of n 1 )> h(/- n-that spkndid soldier wont to balhpoh m command of the Australian troops, "Sandy" remained in JtfvVpt nnd after his master's death lie found another owner. Later he was sent to b ranee, where, after many stirripn- ox _ periencos he wn« gassed, after his'"rider !<o d b^V ';. l}, !ed b.v a fragment of-shell, bandy ' cud not die, but the. skill and care of the surgeons were powerless to wivo his eyesight. After many days he Had recovered sufficiently to 'be ulpr-»d on-a returning transport, and "arrived :n Australia recently. Many thousands of horses have l;r.;>n 'c^ 1* 0^ ]!° ' vvar from Australia^ but' handy is the only one that has been returned. ] *""* —^m T'™'i,";ii