St Breward remembrance service gatecrashed by shire horse
Heads were bowed at the war memorial in St Breward, Cornwall, when a local farmer's enormous shire horse strolled over, had a graze and shoved the service leader out of the way.
In St Breward, on the edge of Bodmin Moor in Cornwall, the village gathered at its hillside war memorial to remember the fallen. Then an extra mourner turned up. He weighed roughly as much as a small car and had not been invited.
A local farmer’s shire horse made his way over to the memorial in the middle of the remembrance service, BBC News reported. He took a moment to nibble the grass around the stone. Then he barged the service leader out of the way.
AI illustration – the moment the order of service went out of order, imagined. Not the actual horse.
Having taken over the front, the horse went for a wander round the crowd who had come to pay their respects. Villagers have since nicknamed him “Warhorse”, after the First World War horse in Michael Morpurgo’s novel War Horse.
AI illustration – Warhorse mingles, imagined. (Spot Gaz, our gorilla, hiding somewhere in this picture.)
Lest we forget: always shut the gate.
Reported by BBC News (video report published 13 Nov 2026). Photo: Bill Harrison, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons / Geograph. Illustrations: Gorilla Gazette / AI-generated.
