WARWICK SMITH/STUFF
Bess, the warhorse, was remembered during an Anzac memorial service near Bulls. Bess was originally named Zelma, but Colonel Charles Guy Powles changed her name when she was allocated to the Wellington Mounted Rifles Regiment. She was one of 10,000 horses to head to Europe as part of New Zealand’s WWI effort, serving in Egypt, Sinai, Palestine and France.
David Unwin/Stuff
Purple and red poppies, and a carrot, were left on Bess memorial after she was posthumously awarded the Blue Cross Medal. She was part of the 1919 victory parade in Berlin. She helped Powles at Flock House, an agricultural training school near Bulls, upon her return in 1922.