Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 100, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1913 — HORSES LOVED BY SOLDIERS [ARTICLE]

HORSES LOVED BY SOLDIERS

Animals That Hava Carried Leaders Through Famoue Campaigns Remembered With Affection. The fact that King Ferdinand of Bulgaria, commander-in-chief of the Balkan to rose, has a favorite black charger which he has named Varna, after the place .of that name on the Black sea where bile summer place Is situated, remind! one of the affeotion which has existed between eele-■Mmiii-ftT mßSt&hm&m:. :3 r r '' ‘ r -jr-i

brated soldiers and the horses which have accompanied them through their numerous campaigns. One of the most famous war horses was Lord Roberts' gallant charger, Volonel, which died a few years ago, and lies buried near the Royal hospital, Dublin. Volonel was a gray Arab which Lord Roberts bought In India, and he rode the animal to Kandahar. Lord Roberts was very much attached to the animal, and'when Queen Victoria awarded medals to the soldiers who had gone through the At-

ghan war the hero of Kandqhar proudly hung round his charger’s neck the Kabul mdtial with four clasps and the Kandahar star of bronze. The best known of Lord Kitchener’s war horses was' a handsome chestnut which he named Omdurman. T|»e animal carried Kitchener during that battle, and ultimately went with his master to South Africa during the Boer war. .