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Index
Abbas Pasha I, ref1
Abd-Elhay, Mohammed, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Abdul Moneim Rushdi Effendi, ref1, ref2, ref3
Abu Simbel, ref1
Abu Tamim Ma’ad al-Mu’izz Li-Dinallah, ref1
Afghanistan, ref1
Ahmad, Shawqi, ref1
Ahmed (butler to Dorothy Brooke), ref1, ref2, ref3
Alexander, Florence, ref1
Alexander, George, ref1
Alexandra, Queen, ref1
Alia bint Al Hussein, Princess, ref1
Ali Pasha Sherif, ref1
Allenby, Edmund, ref1, ref2, ref3
al-Moezz. See Abu Tamim Ma’ad al-Mu’izz Li-Dinallah
Al-Sisi, Abdel Fattah, ref1
American Humane Education Society, ref1
Anthony, Lawrence, ref1
Arab Spring, ref1
Armistice, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Ashorne Hill, ref1
Aswan High Dam, ref1
Babson, Henry, ref1
Baghdad Zoo, ref1
Baines, Honor, ref1
Baring, Evelyn (Lord Cromer), ref1, ref2
Barrow, George de Symons, ref1, ref2
Battle of Gaza, ref1, ref2, ref3
Battle of Jerusalem, ref1, ref2
Battle of Romani, ref1, ref2
Beaton, Cecil, ref1
Beersheba, ref1, ref2
Bekoff, Marc, ref1
Bell, Joseph, ref1
Bentham, Jeremy, ref1
Black Beauty (Sewell), ref1
Bonser, H. P., ref1, ref2, ref3
Bosche (dog), ref1, ref2, ref3
Bouazizi, Mohamed, ref1
Bowyer, Mo, ref1, ref2, ref3
Boyd, Alexander Keown, ref1
Boyer, Joseph McLeod, ref1
Branch, Alfred E., ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8; as Arabian horse expert, ref9; arrival of, in Egypt, ref10; as director of Cairo Zoo, ref11; Dorothy Brooke’s pseudonym for, ref12; education of, ref13; and epidemic (1928), ref14; friends of, in Egyptian royal family, ref15, ref16; marriage of, to Ada Loomis Hill, ref17; and rescue of ex–war horses, ref18, ref19, ref20, ref21, ref22; turning against Dorothy Brooke by, ref23, ref24, ref25, ref26
Branch, Newton Kemal, ref1
British Cavalry Brigade, ref1, ref2, ref3
Brooke (Action for Working Horses and Donkeys), ref1, ref2
Brooke, Dorothy (née Gibson-Craig): appeal letters of, to the Morning Post, ref1, ref2; appearance of, ref3; as author, ref4; background of, ref5, ref6; children of, ref7, ref8; death of, ref9; and formation of buying committee, ref10; as founding member of International League for the Protection of Horses (World Horse Welfare), ref11; and horse Jordan, ref12, ref13, and horse Jorrocks, ref14, ref15, and horse Old Bill, ref16; and horse Ransome, ref17, ref18, ref19; and horse Valiant, ref20, ref21; marriage and divorce of, ref22; and Old War Horse Memorial Hospital, ref23, ref24, ref25; parents of, ref26; and Pyramid horses, ref27, ref28; siblings of, ref29, ref30; visit of, to Cairo SPCA, ref31
Brooke, Geoffrey Francis Heremon, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9; appearance of, ref10; as author, ref11, ref12; background of, ref13; death of, ref14; and horse Alice, ref15, and horse Combined Training, ref16; as officer in Sixteenth Royal Lancers, ref17, ref18; service of, in Great War, ref19
Brooke, Peter, ref1
Brooke Alexandria, ref1, ref2
Brooke Aswan, ref1, ref2
Brooke Edfu, ref1, ref2, ref3
Brooke Hospital for Animals (Cairo), ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8; descriptions of, ref9, ref10; founding of, ref11; sequestration of, ref12
Brooke Luxor, ref1, ref2, ref3
Brooke USA, ref1
Bryant, Mrs. George, ref1, ref2
Burnett-Stuart, John, ref1
Burrill, Mr. (Brooke Hospital treasurer), ref1, ref2
Butler, Patrick, ref1
Cab Drivers’ Union (Cairo), ref1, ref2
Cairo, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Cairo Manure Company, ref1
Cairo SPCA, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11; Dorothy Brooke’s first visit to, ref12; and Dorothy Brooke’s plan to save ex–war horses, ref13; establishment of buying committee at, ref14; founding of, ref15; and Murad Raghib, ref16; rescue of Old Bill at, ref17; in World War I, ref18
“Cairo Vets,” ref1
Cairo War Memorial Cemetery, ref1
Cairo Zoo, ref1, ref2, ref3
Calcutta, ref1, ref2
camels, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9
Camel Xiangzi (Lao She), ref1
Camilla, Duchess, ref1
Campbell, Ronald, ref1
Carr-Ellis, Mary, ref1
Chauvel, Harry, ref1
Chewie (donkey), ref1
Christie, Agatha: Death on the Nile, ref1
Churchill, Winston, ref1
Clarke, Francis E., ref1
Clarke, Travers, ref1
Cole, Ada, ref1, ref2, ref3
Cromer, Lord. See Baring, Evelyn (Lord Cromer)
Cupid (horse): in Beirut, ref1; birth of, ref2; in Cairo, ref3; death of, ref4; at Deir al Belah, ref5; at El Arish, ref6; at El Shatt, ref7; entry of, into war, ref8; at Gaza, ref9; in Haifa, ref10; at Helmieh (Egypt), ref11; hoof of, ref12; at Romani, ref13
Daily Telegraph. See Morning Post
Daisy, Princess, ref1
Damascus, ref1
Dauntless (horse), ref1, ref2
Death on the Nile (Christie), ref1
Dennis, Meade Edward, ref1, ref2
Derflinger. See ss Huntsgreen
Donkey Sanctuary, ref1, ref2
Durham, J. A., ref1
Eden, Anthony, ref1
Edward VII, King, ref1, ref2
Egypt: social problems of, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4; as sovereign state, ref5; under foreign rule, ref6
Egypt Equine Aid, ref1, ref2
Egypt Horse Project, ref1
Egyptian Expeditionary Force, ref1
Egyptian Revolution (1952), ref1
Egyptian Society for Mercy to Animals (ESMA), ref1, ref2, ref3
Egyptian Society of Animal Friends (ESAF), ref1, ref2
El Gilban, ref1
El Nahas, Mostapha, ref1, ref2
Ethiopia, ref1
Eugénie, Empress, ref1
Fahmy, Salah Wahib, ref1
Farouk, King, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4,
ref5
Ferdinand, Franz, ref1
Flashlight (horse), ref1, ref2
Flaubert, Gustave, ref1
Foda, Sherif, ref1
Fouad Abaza Pasha, ref1
Fouad I, King, ref1
George V, King, ref1, ref2, ref3
George VI, King, ref1
gharry horses, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9
Ghazi, Dr. (vet at Cairo SPCA), ref1
Gibson, George, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12
Gibson-Craig, William, ref1
Gillies, Harold, ref1
Goodall, Jane, ref1
Great Depression, ref1, ref2, ref3
Great War. See World War I
Grey Button (horse), ref1
Guatemala, ref1
Gulf War, ref1
Hanstead Park, ref1
Hastie, Louise, ref1
Heliopolis, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7
Heveningham, Roland, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7
Hill, Ada Loomis, ref1
Hodgkins, John, ref1, ref2
Hogue, Oliver, ref1
Hore-Belisha, Leslie, ref1
Hornby, Paul, ref1
horse slaughter, ref1
Hull, Richard, ref1
Hussein, King, ref1
Hussein, Saddam, ref1, ref2
ibn Killis, Yaqub, ref1
Illustrated London News, ref1
Imperial Camel Corps, ref1
India, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9
International League for the Protection of Horses. See World Horse Welfare
Iraq War (2003), ref1
Isma’il (khedive), ref1
Jerusalem, ref1, ref2
Jordan, ref1
Kabul, ref1
Kantara, ref1
Kemal El Dine Hussein, ref1
Kenya, ref1
Khalil, Mona, ref1, ref2
Kitchener, Herbert, ref1
Kitty (horse), ref1, ref2
Kress von Kressenstein, Friedrich, ref1
Kuwait, ref1
Kuwait Zoo, ref1
Lao She: Camel Xiangzi, ref1
Laurie, Ranald, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7
Laurie, Vernon, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
Lawrence, T. E., ref1
Loraine, Percy, ref1, ref2, ref3
Lordy (goose), ref1, ref2
Lush, Sarah Searight, ref1, ref2
Mahmoud, Ammr, ref1
Main, Arthur, ref1
Marseilles, ref1, ref2
Mary, Queen, ref1, ref2, ref3
Masefield, John, ref1
Massie, Christopher, ref1
McCullock, Farrier Sergeant, ref1
Meade-King, E., ref1
Mena Camp (Cairo), ref1
Mitzi (mule), ref1
Mohammed Ali (khedive), ref1
Mohammed Ali Tewfik, ref1, ref2
Mohammed Aziz, ref1
Mokattam Hills, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Moore, A. Briscoe, ref1
Moreuil Wood, ref1, ref2
Morning Post, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Mubarak, Hosni, ref1, ref2
Mulebbis (Peta Tikvah), ref1
Munroe, Graham, ref1, ref2
Murad, Ahmad, ref1
Mussolini, Benito, ref1
Naguib, Mohammed, ref1
Nasser, Gamel Abdel, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
National Bank of Egypt, ref1
Nepal, ref1
Nesbit, Lynne, ref1, ref2
Nicaragua, ref1
Nightingale, Florence, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Nile River, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Nimrod (horse), ref1, ref2
Nowzad, ref1
Ogilvie, William Henry, ref1
Old Bill (horse), ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
Old War Horse Fund, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7; Alexandria branch of, ref8; Alfred Branch’s defection from, ref9; British support of, ref10; eviction of, from Royal Agricultural Society, ref11; ex–war horses returned to England by, ref12; founding of (1931), ref13; move of, ref14; threatened closure of, by Egyptian government, ref15
Olympia International Horse Show, ref1, ref2
Omar Toussoun, Prince, ref1
Order of the Blue Cross, ref1
Ottoman Empire, ref1, ref2, ref3
Our Dumb Friends League (Blue Cross), ref1, ref2, ref3
Pakistan, ref1
Palmyra, ref1
Petra, ref1
Polly (horse), ref1, ref2, ref3
Port Said, ref1, ref2
Pyramids of Giza, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Quicksilver (horse), ref1, ref2
Raghib, Murad, ref1, ref2, ref3
Ragtime (horse), ref1
Ramses Station (Cairo), ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Rawalpindi, ref1
Reed, Karen, ref1
Riccarton House, ref1
Roberts, Douglas, ref1
Rommel, Erwin, ref1
Rosie (horse), ref1
Royal Agricultural Society (Cairo), ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Royal Army Pay Corps, ref1
Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (London), ref1
Royal Veterinary College of London, ref1
RSPCA (Cairo), ref1
RSPCA (Leamington), ref1, ref2, ref3
RSPCA (London), ref1, ref2
Sadat, Anwar, ref1
Salza, Vera von, ref1
Sami, Hassan, ref1, ref2, ref3
Sayyida Zeinab (Zaynab bint’Ali), ref1
Sayyida Zeinab district (Cairo), ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7
Searight, Ann, ref1
Searight, James Gerald Lamb, ref1
Searight, Pamela (“Pinkie”), ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Searight, Philip, ref1, ref2
Searight, Richard, ref1, ref2, ref3
Searight, Rodney, ref1, ref2
Senegal, ref1
Serhal, Asad, ref1
Sewell, Anna: Black Beauty, ref1
Shepheard’s Hotel (Cairo), ref1, ref2
Sidhom, Petra Maria, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Sidqi, Isma’il, ref1
Simon the Tanner, ref1
Sinai and Palestine Campaign, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Six-Day War, ref1
Smith, Douglas, ref1
Society for the Protection of Nature (Lebanon), ref1
Solly-Flood, A., ref1
Soueif, Ahdad, ref1
Speaking of Palm Trees (Taylor Smith), ref1
Speed, E. J. L., ref1
Spencer, C. R., ref1
Spinks, Charlton Watson, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Spooner, Glenda, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Spooner, Hugh “Tony,” ref1
Spooner, Winifred, ref1
ss Huntsgreen, ref1
Stevenson, Marjorie, ref1, ref2
Stevenson, Ralph, ref1, ref2
Suez Canal, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8
Suzette (horse), ref1
Sykes-Picot Agreement (1916), ref1
Taffy (horse), ref1
Taylor Smith, Kathleen, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5; Speaking of Palm Trees, ref6
Tel Aviv, ref1
Transjordanian Frontier Force, ref1, ref2
Ukraine, ref1
Veterinary College of Edinburgh, ref1
Wavell, Archibald, ref1
World Horse Welfare, ref1, ref2
World Organisation for Animal Health, ref1
World War I, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14; animal service in, ref15, ref16; and Cairo War Memorial Cemetery, ref17; cavalry in, ref18; commemoration of equine service in, ref19; eastern theatre of, ref20; end of, ref21; equines abandoned at end of, ref22, ref23, ref24, ref25, ref26; Imperial Camel Corps service in, ref27; outbreak of, ref28; shunning of maimed survivors of, ref29
World War II, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
Yeomanry Mounted Division, ref1
Yule, Gladys, ref1, ref2
Yule, Henrietta, ref1, ref2
zabaleen (“garbage people”), ref1
Zulfikar, Dina, ref1
Picture section
1. Portrait of Dorothy Brooke by Olive Antrobus. Searight Collection.
2. Riccarton House in Edinburgh, home of Dorothy’s Gibson-Craig ancestors. From a 1904 postcard. Courtesy of Ben Jackman.
3. Dorothy Searight with infant son Rodney, pre-1914. Searight Collection.
4. Geoffrey Francis Heremon Brooke, Dorothy’s second husband, with canine companion. Searight Collection.
5. Geoffrey Brooke and Combined Training. Searight Collection.
6. Dorothy Brooke on board a ship, likely going to or from Egypt. Searight Collection.
7. Felucca on the Nile River. Behind this exotic beauty lay human and animal misery. Myron Bement Smith Collection. Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC.
8. A view to the cliffs at the Mokattam Hills. It was near here that Dorothy saw the lonely skeleton of an English horse and conceived her letter to the Morning Post. Myron Bement Smith Collection. Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC.
9. Dr. Alfred Branch, wearing his habitual fez, sitting at Dorothy’s left at the buying table in happier days. It is easy to see that amour propre was of great importance to him. Richard Searight Collection.
10. Two elderly patients at the Brooke Hospital, Cairo, showing the friendship so often bred in adversity. It is believed this is a photograph of the two horses Dorothy accidentally separated and later reunited. Searight Collection.
11. A pair of working horses that look to have been brought to the Brooke Hospital too late. It was images like this one that Dorothy assiduously kept from the public eye. Unfortunately these sights are still a daily reality for animal welfare charities. Searight Collection.
12. That a horse would have been allowed to suffer, let alone work, with this kind of injury is unthinkable to today’s world. But this (and worse) is what Dorothy Brooke faced every week at her hospital, and it is faced by her vets’ successors even today. Richard Searight Collection.
13. Ransomed, a watercolor of a rescued war horse feeding on the floor of the Brooke Hospital stable in Cairo by Pamela Searight, daughter of Dorothy Brooke. Searight Collection.
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