WHAT GREATER SACRIFICE
THAN HIS OWN LIFE
GIVEN TO SAVE A HORSE

SERJEANT CHARLES COX

ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY

31ST MAY 1916 AGE 39

BURIED: BULLY-GRENAY COMMUNAL CEMETERY, BRITISH EXTENSION, FRANCE


Horses were valued and valuable members of gun crews. Each 18 pounder gun was pulled by a team of six horses with the Bombardier and Serjeant riding their own. It is said that 484,000 British Army horses died during the war.