When the Hipchicks Went to War by Pamela Rushby

Dad gave her to me when she was just the most adorable, wobbly-legged little foal you ever saw, and we’d grown up together. I’d had Bunty since we were both very young. This is how she came to be in Tripoli, half the world away, with Harry, at the very end of the war. She belonged to me - Laura, Harry’s younger sister. In 1914, when the war first began, she was my horse, my very special horse. ' The Horses Didn't Come Home is an emotional and moving story that transports the reader back to 1917 and the First World War' - Toowoomba Chronicle Read moreīunty hadn’t always been Harry’s horse. 'A superb story about an extraordinary corner of our past' - Jackie French The men proudly claimed it was their great-hearted horses that won the day.īut in the end, the horses didn't come home. It was Australian soldiers and horses that took part in, and won, this amazing, unexpected, unorthodox victory. The last great cavalry charge in history took place at Beersheba in the Sinai Desert in 1917. A few soldiers watch them as they ride out.

Then Harry swings up into the saddle and turns away from the camp into the desert. The two of them, horse and master, stand totally still.

She is sturdy and strong an Australian waler who belongs to Harry's sister, Laura, back home in Australia.Īs Harry finishes the grooming he stands in front of Bunty. In an army camp in a Middle Eastern desert, a young Australian soldier named Harry is saddling and grooming his horse, Bunty. A story about a boy, a horse and the last great cavalry charge in history.

When the Hipchicks Went to War by Pamela Rushby