Updated: July 17 2021, 8.18am
Captain Alexander Wallace with his distinctive chestnut and white mare, Vic, and another war horse. Supplied by Montrose Air Station Heritage Centre.
It is a remarkable story, stretching from the arable calm of the Angus coast to the brutal desolation of the Somme, and home again.
And for the first time, the inspiring tale of a chestnut mare and the decorated Army officer who shared four years on the battlefields of France and Flanders with her has been fully revealed as the true-life background to Angus’s own War Horse.
Little known for more than a century, the story of Captain Alexander Wallace MC and the distinctive mount, Vic, is now the centrepiece of a new exhibition at Montrose Air Station Heritage Centre (MASHC).
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