pferguson | May 29, 2022

A War Horse Story In 2006 while on tour with an English friend across the landscapes of the Western Front, we happened upon the horse memorial at Chipilly. Time was of the essence, our host and driver wanted to show us as much as possible, I managed to ask for a quick stop to roll […]

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Tags: 1st Canadian Pioneer Battalion, 58th (London) Division Memorial, Canadian Forestry Corps, Chilliwack, Chipilly (France), Handspring Puppet Company, Henri Gauquie, In Flanders Fields Museum, John Tams, Michael Morpurgo, National Army Museum, Only Remembered, Royal National Theatre (London), Sculpture, Soldiers Settlement Board, Thomas Prentiss Wicks, War Horse

pferguson | December 30, 2011

Reflecting Upon War Horse The plow cuts its way into the ground, and turns the earth over to one side heaping the rich soil atop the furrow’s parapet. As Albert urges Joey through this field of stone, once again I turn myself towards the ploughed fields of France and Flanders, and to the harvest. Albert […]

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Tags: Albert, Auchonvillers, France and Flanders, Great War, Hawthorn Ridge, Iron harvest, Joey, War Horse

pferguson | November 26, 2011

I have read the story, seen its inspiration included in an exhibit at the Imperial War Museum, London and also watched the theatre production at the New London Theatre in Drury Lane. It is War Horse the story by Michael Morpurgo that has inspired so much discussion of the horse in war and the Great […]

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Tags: Army Horses, Exhibits, Imperial War Museum, Marengo, Michael Morpurgo, Napoleon, National Army Museum, RSPCA (Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals), Sick and Wounded Animals, Theatre, War Horse