Day 313/20. We Remember Them.

The War Horse Memorial in Romsey today, on Remembrance Sunday. (see extra pictures)

In World War I there was a massive Remount Camp on Pauncefoot Hill just outside Romsey. In little more than 3 years, it prepared 120,000 horses and mules (mostly shipped here from America) for war service.
After the War the Remount Camp was completely demolished and largely forgotten, but hardcore from the camp was used to raise the ground level of the new War Memorial Park in Romsey.
Local people decided in 2013 to commemorate the horses and men who served at the Remount Camp and in their memory a statue was commissioned from local sculptor Amy Goodman who designed and cast a bronze-resin statue of a warhorse and soldier. This is probably the only statue in the world commemorating horses in the service of war.