Polly Hopkins
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
1928
Materials
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Sutton Hoo, Suffolk
NT 1433826
Summary
Watercolour painting on paper, Frank Pretty's mare Polly Hopkins by P.A. Clifford dated 1928. Includes regimental badge above inscription '1914-1918 France - Flanders 4th Bn Suffolk Regt'. Two sheets of paper adhered to backboard detailing Polly Hopkins' war career.
Provenance
Gift from David Pretty, Mrs Edith Pretty's grandson, 2007
Marks and inscriptions
Pasted to backboard: Polly Hopkins 4th Bri Suffolk Regiment T.A. Joined up August 4th 1914 Demobilized July 28th 1919 Four + a half years in battle area without any leave. Wounded three times 1914. August. Felixstowe _ various parts of Essex Sept: Colchester Nov. 6th. Left for France Nov. Hazebroucke St Omer Dec. Givenchy la Bassee 1915. March. Neuve Chapelle April. 2nd Battle of Ypres May. Fromelles Ridge + various parts of the front Sept. Loos Nov. Hohenzollern Redoubt. Vermelles. 1916. Jan. On front + in Lines of Communication July. On the Somme. Fricourt Sept. Hebuterne Dec. Bray 1917. Clery March 4th. Bochesnes April 23rd. Hindenburg Tunnel. Cherisy. R. Suse. Apette July. Hennaucourt. Warley August. Nieuport Sept. Paschendale Left the 33rd division who were resting + joined the 58th division + went to Rausant [indecipherable] to Division. Bichencourt. Various parts of the Southern Front + at the end of the end of the War was at Mons. She came back to her owner B. Colonel Frank Pretty T.D. + was hunted with the Essex + Suffolk Foxhounds, The Cheshire Hounds + the Euston Harriers until 1928