Guy Haydon raised and trained Midnight from the time she was a foal. The two had such a strong bond that when World War I broke out, Lieutenant Haydon slipped away from the frontlines of Gallipoli on an Egypt-bound ship to reunite with his horse. There, in the city of Beersheba, on October 31, 1917, two regiments of the Australian Light Horse Brigade took part in one of the last great cavalry charges in history. Among the first to leap the enemy trenches was Lieutenant Guy Haydon, riding Midnight—who succumbed to a bullet that might have otherwise killed her rider.
- ISBN: 9780763674663
- Author: Greenwood, Mark
- Illustrator: Lessac, Frane
- Published: 2015 , Candlewick Press
- Themes: bravery, Horses, Human and animals, Loyalty, World War I
- Descriptors: Australia, Historical Fiction, Picture Book, Primary (ages 6-9)
- No. of pages: 32