13/05/2026
A wonderful story from the book
Horses In Australia by Nicholas Brash
One of the most popular crime-fighting duos in Victorian police history was policeman Alex Tassell and his trusty steed Gendarme. Such was his affection for his horse that Tassell wrote a book about Gendarme.
This photograph, taken on the day they both retired from the force in 1996, seems to show Tassell and Gendarme reading the book together, however Gendarme is actually hunting for the hay stuck between the pages in order to capture the shot. Bruce Postle