The Lost War Horses of Cairo
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14. View to the boxes or stalls, Brooke Hospital, Cairo. The two horses peering out at the photographer would have been well enough to stand. Many remained on the soft straw where they first lay on being admitted. Searight Collection.
15. Dorothy Brooke, sitting outside the hospital with one of her patients in Cairo. Richard Searight Collection.
16. Dorothy Brooke’s deep compassion for her equine patients is on full view in this photograph, dating to around 1934. Searight Collection.
17. A section of Old Cairo not much removed from its medieval origins, looking very like the vibrant slum area where Dorothy established her hospital in 1934. Author’s collection.
18. Dorothy, center, at the buying table outside the SPCA hospital, with Egyptian members of the committee. Dr. Branch sits with chin in hand, considering the offer before him. The condition of the animal brought for their inspection has clearly left them all aghast. Searight Collection.
19. A view from the buying committee’s perspective. Dr. Branch, in fez, and Dorothy can be seen at the table examining the horse being presented for sale. Richard Searight Collection.
20. Jordan, one of the handful of former war horses Dorothy’s hospital was able to make fit enough to return to the country he had last seen almost twenty years earlier. Searight Collection.
21. This photograph, taken at the Cairo train station, shows Dorothy Brooke in later years. Her frailty is apparent here. George Gibson stands to her left. Searight Collection.
22. Dorothy Brooke, center, speaking with chief veterinarian Dr. Murad Raghib and other members of the hospital staff. Police captain Rushdi Effendi holds the umbrella. The charm she exerted on her staff is evident here. Richard Searight Collection.
23. Geoffrey and Dorothy Brooke in Salisbury, their final home together in England. Searight Collection.
24. Taken in England, this photograph shows Dorothy pushing a pram containing her granddaughter, the future travel writer Sarah Searight Lush, and a canine traveling companion. Searight Collection.
25. Dorothy Brooke’s grave, located in Cairo War Memorial Cemetery. Searight Collection.
26. A view to the Brooke Hospital today. Courtesy of Mohammed Abd-Elhay.
This edition published in Australia in 2018 by Allen & Unwin
First published in the United States in 2017 by Potomac Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press, under the title Dorothy Brooke and the Fight to Save Cairo’s Lost War Horses
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