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23rd June 2014: English Heritage is delighted to announce that a statue of the ‘real War Horse’ Warrior, is to be installed at Carisbrooke Castle.
Commissioned by the Seely family from celebrated equine sculptor, Philip Blacker, the half size bronze depicts General Jack Seely astride Warrior, whose newspaper obituary read ‘the horse the Germans could not kill.’ It has been loaned to English Heritage for the duration of the First World War centenary and accompanies the current Carisbrooke Castle Museum exhibition, Men and Horses Go to War.
Warrior was bred on the Isle of Wight, went to France with General Jack Seely on one of the first boats in August 1914 and survived four years on the Western Front leading the famous last cavalry charge at Moreuil Wood in March 1918. He returned home safe and sound and four years to the day of the Moreuil Wood charge, won the Isle of Wight point to point. He lived to the grand age of 33, an almost unbelievable feat when eight million other horses and mules sadly became casualties of war. A book about Warrior’s life was first published in 1934 – and again in 2011- with original Sir Alfred Munnings pictures of the horse. It is the same famous Munnings picture of Jack Seely astride Warrior which has formed the basis for the Blacker Sculpture.
The Warrior statue will be located in the Princess Beatrice garden, adjacent to the Chapel of St Nicholas which has served as the Isle of Wight’s war memorial since after the First World War.
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